Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Plodding wins the race.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Please all, and you will please none.

My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.

Never find fault with the absent.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.

When you doubt, abstain.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.