Wisdom Quotes - Page 39

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

  Benjamin Franklin

  Passion, Men, Prejudice

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Change, Prayer, Giving

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• . . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

  Laozi

  Intelligence

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• Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Humility, Men, Self

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• Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Soil, Consideration

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• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Men, Errors

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• . . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

  Laozi

  Attitude, Light, Moments

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Justice, Folly

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• Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Chance, Deliberation

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.

  Mencius

  Men, Looks, If You Love Me

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• Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Doubt, Mirth, Faults

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.27

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• In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Lying, Differences, Age

  "Satires (Satire 4)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Scorn, Consequence

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.

  Marion G. Romney

  Inspiration, Men, Self

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• Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

  Tryon Edwards

  Past, Guidance, Instruction

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  Socrates

  Heart, Knowledge, Judging

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• If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Restriction, Should, Communicate

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• We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surplus, Nations, Seeing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.340, Penguin

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• There are no athiests in foxholes.

  William Thomas Cummings

  Foxholes

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• To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Valuable, Cheerfulness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

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• He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

  Philip Kapleau

  Compassion, Light, Water

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• We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Men, Judging, Important

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