Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. —Alfred Lord Tennyson More about this quote Tags: wisdom knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: wisdom advice age old age mischief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. —John Updike More about this quote Tags: wisdom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men know what I mean. —Lin-Chi More about this quote Tags: hunger wisdom food eating tiredness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. —T.S. Eliot More about this quote Tags: wisdom humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. —Theodore Dreiser More about this quote Tags: ignorance wisdom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Master Shaku Soen liked to take an evening stroll through a nearby village. One day he heard loud lamentations from a house and, on entering quietly, realized that the householder had died and the family and neighbors were crying. He sat down and cried with them. An old man noticed him and remarked, rather shaken on seeing the famous master crying with them, "I would have thought that you at least were beyond such things." "But it is this which puts me beyond it," replied the master with a sob. —Irmgard Schloegl More about this quote Tags: wisdom sadness feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning. —John Cowper Powys More about this quote Tags: spirituality wisdom poetry mistake Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile. —Edward Hoagland More about this quote Tags: wisdom equanimity playfulness calmness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: wisdom intelligence perception generations age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. —Herman Melville More about this quote Tags: wisdom sadness sanity woe madness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. —Minna Antrim More about this quote Tags: genius wisdom humor knowledge self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. —Charles Dickens More about this quote Tags: love wisdom heart Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: politics wisdom nations money capital Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email