Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 10

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. .

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

A child''s hand in yours — what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom.

Happiness is not a reward - it is consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

God helps them that help themselves.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. .

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.

Intuition does not always appear as the ingenious breakthrough or something grandiose. Intuitive thoughts, feelings, and solutions often manifest themselves as good old common sense. Common sense is efficient.

The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.

Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD''S LOVE!

Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Be humble, if thou would''st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

I don''t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

It is no longer enough to be smart — all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.

Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it.

Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you''d have preferred to talk.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.