Wisdom Quotes

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

When I was saying that scientists are humans like everybody else scientists as I said run the gamut of brilliant and wise to stupid and foolish just like plumbers and chiropractors and dentists and uber drivers and any other group scientists are not one whit wiser than than electricians but we think they are because people believe in science not just in science in its facts h2o is water but in science as the answer to life's questions science does not answer life's questions it answers questions such as why does a cancer cell metastasize what is the gravitational pull of the Sun on the planets that science and only science can answer I don't look to the Bible to figure out the gravitational pull of the Sun or how to deal with metastasizing cancer cells I don't know one religious person who does.

This shows you how this person has never thought that anything that I have said through never these is all brand-new should I be more inclined to believe peer review test data or a 2000 year old book written by sheep herders but there is not one religious person who believes that you you you learn peer review test data from the Bible that shows you how foolish this comment this is a person who has never thought this through okay so do you learn thou shalt not murder thou shalt honor your parents thou shalt not steal love thy neighbor as thyself from peer review test data of course not you learn nothing about good and evil which is the most important question on earth from text data from peer review test data but this is this is the ignorance that pervades the secular world .

But it [science] offers zero wisdom there was no wisdom is how to live a life what is the difference between right and wrong we know the limitations of the Bible you may not know the limitations of science that's the difference we don't look to the Bible for science you shouldn't look to science for morality or wisdom that's all I'm saying but the moment you think science tells you anything other than science then it's a religion.

For example scientists made the atom bomb scientists did not decide whether the atom bomb would be dropped on Japan to end World War two lay people did people who had no clue how an atom bomb is made the scientists made the atom bomb they did not decide whether to drop it.

You know what nature tells you nature says the survival of the fittest you know that the hospital is the most unnatural thing in the universe because it's survival of the least fit it's the opposite of nature the opposite if you let nature guide you which that science science is the survival of the fittest should we apply it to human life then close every Hospital.

Where do you get good and evil from science I do get that from the 10 commandments I do get that from love your neighbor as yourself love the stranger that's why we get and that's why the Western world abolish slavery before anybody else it had slaves which was terrible but everyone had slaves so the only moral question is why did anybody abolish it not why did anybody have it if an evil is universal the only question to ask is why did it end not why was it there?

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. With your head full of brains, and your shoes full of feet, You're too smart to go down any not-so-good-street.

The world in its search for physical security, for instance, tends to build Maginot Lines while naively neglecting its northern flank. It seeks to control the diseases flowing from sexual immorality but without honoring the principles of fidelity and chastity. The world in its wisdom constantly seeks to accommodate the natural man while gospel wisdom constantly urges us to put off the natural man (Mosiah 3:19). This is a pivotal point, and it makes all the difference!

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

...is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice.

John Calvin, prematurely aged by sickness and by the incessant labors he had undertaken, summed up his personal philosophy with this statement: "All our wisdom comprises basically two things . . . the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves."

William Tyndale would perhaps suffice. Tyndale felt that the people had a right to know what was promised to them in the scriptures. To those who opposed his work of translation, he declared: "If God spare my life, I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the scripture than thou doest."........testimony of the plowboy who became a prophet(Joseph Smith)

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

The majority of us prefer to look to the outside world and not inside of your own self.

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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

It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes; if you are in one stop digging.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live by its dictates.

The wolf can change his appearance, but not his appetite.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Our bodies know that they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless. Guided by longing, belonging is the wisdom of rhythm. When we are in rhythm with our own nature, things flow and balance naturally. Every fragment does not have to be relocated, reordered; things cohere and fit according to their deeper impulse and instinct. Our modern hunger to belong is particularly intense. An increasing majority of people feel no belonging. We have fallen out of rhythm with life. The art of belonging is the recovery of the wisdom of rhythm.

Never cut what you can untie.

Our life has not been an ascent up one side of a mountain and down the other. We did not reach a peak, only to decline and die. We have been as drops of water, born in the ocean and sprinkled on the earth in a gentle rain. We became a spring, and then a stream, and finally a river flowing deeper and stronger, nourishing all it touches as it nears its home once again. Don't accept the modern myths of aging. You are not declining. You are not fading away into uselessness. You are a sage, a river at its deepest and most nourishing. Sit by a river bank some time and watch attentively as the river tells you of your life.

Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better, some other time it will all turn out. This is it; no one else has the answer, no other place will be better, and it has already turned out. At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. There is no need to run outside for better seeing. Nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it, the less you learn. Search your heart and see the way to do is to be.

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; But to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Practice, Why we recite, do, memorize, return to over and over again. This Breath. This moment. Over and Over Sometimes it feels mechanical. And sometimes it brings up its opposite. And you just keep working with it. In the Jewish mystical tradition, there’s a story of a great rabbi who taught his disciples to memorize, reflect, contemplate, and place the teachings of the holy words of the Torah (Jewish bible) ON their heart. One day a student asked the rabbi why he always used the phrase “on your heart.” The master replied, “Only something greater than yourself can put the teachings in your heart. Here we recite and learn and put them on the heart, hoping that someday when your heart breaks, they will fall in.” So we do this practice both to release ourself from the past, and also to allow the heart finally to break open and to renew the original goodness.

Put all your eggs in the one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.

Noise means nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

One who believes himself to have all the answers certainly hasn't asked all the questions.

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say, then say the opposite.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. King Lear Act II Sc. 1

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example of himself.

We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, Our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.

The biggest mistake you can make is believing you work for somebody else.

He who rides a tiger can never dismount.

We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.