Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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• Life

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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• Wisdom

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

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• Humor

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

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• Wisdom

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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• Wisdom

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

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• Wisdom

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

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• Wisdom

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

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• Wisdom

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

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• Life

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]

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• Love

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

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• Truth

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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• Wisdom

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

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• Wisdom

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

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• Wisdom