Quotes of: Human-wisdom Keyword

Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Do not ever go out of yourself because you will get lost even from your life.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than with prayer?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher

Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Free will is like fallen leaves agreeing to be where they are.

Wiccan Wisdom: From Water's Edge

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

Orson Pratt

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Henry Petroski

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

Dylan Moran

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Edward Levi

Lloyd: Women: can't live with them, can't live without them. Jack Torrance: Words of wisdom, Lloyd my man. Words of wisdom.

The Shining

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Ariel Gore

The hot sun melts away the snow; when anger comes, does wisdom go.

Indian

No one will say, "My father is incontinent." Everyone will say, "He is a man of advice and wisdom."

Tunisian

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Welsh

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting...

Franny and Zooey

Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain. "Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table. "It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. "I did not lead a very wise life myself ...

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir