Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...

Mister B. Gone

Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

Muchas Vidas, Muchos Maestros

And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed anymore.

Moving Pictures

The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history.

And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection

When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that is imposed by others on us.

A Magician's Visit

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.

Make Love to the Universe: Himalayan Masters Share Spiritual Wisdom

The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling out the manner in which the natural organism itself wants...

Nature, Man and Woman

Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

Laches

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom.

Shadow Puppets

Peace comes by knowing you’re dearly loved by the Lord, Who gives to His children the Holy Spirit to dwell within, to make their witness strong, so that one day they will be as a tree, fruitful and blessed with the wisdom of the forest.

A Sunset Rising

The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each passing year. She was a small frame of a woman with piercing eyes that suggested that they knew you, understood you even.

Take Me to the Castle

Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong, Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone, Create a new;from the wisdom of the past, Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

Once a Girl, Now a Woman

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins

Prayer enables you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.

Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress

Prayer allows you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.

Prayers to Calm Your Heart: Finding the Path to More Peace and Less Stress

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

Success is not about your techniques, it’s not solely about the wisdom or the knowledge you have, it’s about your mindset and your actions.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience