Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.