Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.