Quotes by Wisdom Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings learningwisdomsleep The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one. Joshua Lederberg issuespoliticswisdom Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. Josh Billings honestywisdomtruth Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers. Josiah Wedgwood wisdombeautifulart Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet. Joy Hester wisdomwhiterunning I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here? - that is not right but for we are here, but only just here. If we don't hold what we have we may never find it again, so delicate a thing it is, yet it gives the appearance of being overpowerful on close examination... I don't think a change of location can answer our questions. Joy Hester wisdomyearsthinking The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. Joseph Addison powerfulwisdomwise A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties. Joseph Addison wisdommenphilosophy A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome. Josh Billings wisdomwisemen The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. Hafez shipswisdomspiritual Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace. Hafez gracewisdomspiritual Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature. Hafez wisdomspiritualgod I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew. Hafez wisdomspiritualchristian Pulling out the chair beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God What else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world! Hafez wisdomspiritualfun Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days Hafez islamicwisdommen Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason. Judith Wright wisdomfirepast The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul. Hafez wisdomtruthspiritual The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. Josh Billings ignorancewisdominspirational I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life. Joyce Meyer wisdomwanthands Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness. Judy Tatelbaum wisdomsufferingfun«105106107108109110111112113114115»
