Wisdom - Quotes
They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Year`s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
The stronger your beliefs are, the less open you are to growth and wisdom, because "strength of belief" is only the intensity with which you resist questioning yourself.
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix`d to my tables of examination, for daily use: "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me."
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn`t yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself.
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don`t conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything - new ideas and established wisdom. We need wide appreciation of this kind of thinking. It works. It`s an essential tool for a democracy in an age of change. Our task is not just to train more scientists but also to deepen public understanding of science.
Advances in science are often delayed because the common wisdom holds that something is impossible.
Love doesn`t need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.