Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
Other voices on Wisdom
- To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
- To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- To-morrow thou wilt live, didst thou say, Posthumus? to-day is too late; he is the wise man who lived yesterday.
- To reject wisdom because the person who communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?
- To take something for granted is to hide its value from yourself.
- To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
- To use books rightly is to go to them for help.
- True fortitude of understanding consists in not suffering what we do know to be disturbed by what we do not know.
- True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. It is a great virtue; it covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin.
- True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
- Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Unless we exercise our power to choose wisely, our actions will be determined by conditions. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
- We all know that the secret of breakdown and wreck is seldom so much an insufficient knowledge of the route, as imperfect discipline of the will.
- We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
- We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
- We are ruined not by what we really want, but by what we think we do.
- We become wise by observing what happens when we're not.
- We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
- We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need.
- We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. brothers or perish together as fools.
- We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
- We pay too much attention to the most confident voices — and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.
- We should ask not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
- We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
- We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
- We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
- What a man knows should find its expression in what he does. The value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
- What is cheapest to you now is likely to be dearest in the end.
- What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
- What you give to the body, you presently lose; what you give to the soul, you keep for ever.
- When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
- When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are
- When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.