Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don't have.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.