Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Once you label me you negate me.

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

At the end of the day, if you're not spanking your child and instilling in them the ideas of selflessness, servitude, and wisdom, you're probably looking at a future P. Diddy in the making (maybe even a Keith Olbermann - take your pick).

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.