Wisdom
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THE PROVERBS of
Solomon. A wise son
maketh a glad father: but a
foolish son is the heaviness of
his mother.
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
A wise old owl lived in an oak.
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird.
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Who reads much and walks much sees much and knows much.
Wisdom comes with talking less frivolously and listening more seriously. The latter implies a learning attitude; the former assumes an air of omniscience that does not exist.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.
Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,Joseph exclaimed.
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun.
Success is power; because it maketh reputation of wisdom, or good fortune; which makes men either fear him or rely on him.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
Then, must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.
Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom.
Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
He who yields to his times acts wisely.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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 down on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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.
