Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.