Browsing Quotes With Tag: wisdom (69)
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Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Speaker: Francis of AssisiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The art of being wise is the ability to know what to overlook.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is clever, but he who knows himself is enlightened.
Speaker: Lao TsePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have at times no connection.
Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men: wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that she has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In modern revelation, the Lord defines truth as “knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come.” (D&C 93:24) Notice very carefully the words used to describe truth. Truth is a knowledge of things. In other words, it is an internal mental understanding or grasping of the way things really are; it is the subjective accurately reflecting the objective, the personal correctly reflecting the real, the map truly reflecting the territory.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wisdom is a clear sense of increasing idealism and purpose (things as they should be) as well as a sensitive, practical approach to realities (things as they are).
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.
Speaker: John RuskinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God, the playwright says, is concerned that man should learn wisdom, and has marked out the path; and it is a path of suffering. Men are in one sense free to learn or not to learn; but the painful condition of learning is inexorable. The nature of God, in other words, comprises two elements or principles, one harsh, the other gentle.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes of every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.
Speaker: Elbert HubbardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
Speaker: William BulithoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Speaker: Logan Pearsall SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every day is a new life to a wise man.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everything has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see. Sometimes, we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stitch of time reveals its purpose, and a kind of message is enfolded in it. Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And in the tiny, precious wisdom that they give to us, even those dread and hated enemies, suffering and failure, have their reason and their right to be.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I realized that I didn’t need their brilliance any more: it couldn’t help me. All the cleverness in all the world couldn’t stop my stomach from knotting around its prowling fear. When you know you’re going to die, there’s no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end. The comfort that does come, if it comes at all, is that strangely marbled mix of time and place and feeling that we usually call wisdom. For me, on that last night before the battle, it was the sound of my mother’s voice, and it was the life and death of my friend Prabaker.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Khaderbhai once said that if we envy someone for all the right reasons, we’re half way to wisdom. I hope he wasn’t right about that. I hope good envy takes you further than that, because a lifetime has passed since that day at the wire, and I still envy Anand’s calm communion with fate, and I long for it with all my flawed and striving heart.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 10:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Now we can understand what Jesus meant when he spoke about forgiveness, about love, about heaven. He said, “Let the children come with me because the ones who are like them can enter the kingdom of heaven.” When you are a child before you have knowledge, which means before you eat all of the lies, you live in heaven. When you fall, it is because you are innocent. And when you recover that paradise, you become like a child again, but with a big difference. Now you are no longer innocent; you are wise. This gives you immunity; you cannot fall again.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Born thus, I ask to be no other man
Than that I am, and will know who I am.” OedipusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.” Teiresias
Speaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit,
To be wise is to suffer…” TeiresiasSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!