Wisdom
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.
Author: Willie NelsonTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Wisdom
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Author: Khalil GibranTopics: Famous, Wisdom
The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.
Author: Johannes KeplerTopics: Famous, Positive, Wisdom
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
Author: Brad PittTopics: Age, Famous, Wisdom
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
Author: Larry EllisonTopics: Famous, Wisdom
Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.
Author: Jim RohnTopics: Famous, Wisdom, Wish
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Author: Victor HugoTopics: Famous, Feelings, Fool, Fooled, Foolish, God, Life, Love, Meaningful, Wisdom
Life can bring much pain. There are many ways to deal with this pain. Choose wisely.
Author: J. ColeTopics: Choosing, Dealing, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Pain, Ways, Wisdom, Wise
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Famous, Heart, Prayer, Willingness, Wisdom
Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Famous, Feelings, Hurt, Life, Meaningful, Wealth, Wisdom
God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Enriched, Famous, Feelings, God, Goodness, Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Power, Wisdom
The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Civilization, Preservation, Requires, Wisdom
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Time, Wisdom
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Embrace, Faithfulness, Famous, Feelings, God, Heart, Life, Lord, Meaningful, Purpose, Tribulation, Understanding, Unworthy, Wisdom
In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. … The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Men, Peace, Temptation, War, Wisdom
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Country, Hands, Wisdom
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Accept, Change, Changed, Courage, Famous, Grace, Meaningful, Serenity, Wisdom
And, when the whim changes, it is most easy and delightfully disconcerting to play with the respectable and cowardly bourgeois fetishes and to laugh and epigram at the flitting god-ghosts and the debaucheries and follies of wisdom.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Changes, Famous, Laugh, Meaningful, Wisdom
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Embracing, Faithful, God, Grant, Heart, Wisdom
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Feelings, Inspirational, Joy, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Pursuit, Wisdom
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Embrace, Famous, Feelings, God, Life, Meaningful, Understanding, Wisdom
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Author: Jane AustenTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Wisdom
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Achievement, Famous, Incongruity, Meaningful, Wisdom
Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Desire, Famous, Feelings, Inordinate, Life, Meaningful, Wisdom
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Accept, Serenity, Wisdom
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Famous, Feelings, Heart, Judgement, Life, Meaningful, Silence, Wisdom
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Wisdom
There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Greater, Judge, Justice, Wisdom, Wrong
I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.
Author: K. L. RahulTopics: Experience, Famous, Growth, Knowledge, Substitute, Understanding, Wisdom
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – it’s what comes through.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Emotional, Existence, Experience, Famous, Voice, Wisdom
Intellect is not wisdom
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Intellect, Meaningful, Wisdom
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Constitution, Famous, Legislation, Meaningful, Perfect, Plan, Present, Strangely, Wisdom
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Purchased, Wisdom
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Certain, Circumstances, End, Famous, Increases, Involves, Life, Meaningful, Progress, Train, Unforeseen, War, Wisdom
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Feelings, First, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Purchased, Setting off, Wisdom, Wonder
Every writer is a storyteller, but not every storyteller is a writer
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Story, Storyteller, Straight, Straightforward, Winter, Wisdom, Wise
That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.”
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Circles, Embracing, Famous, God, Natural, Occupies, Philosophy, Place, Power, Science, Study, Theology, Wisdom, Works
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, God, Imagination, Universe, Wisdom
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Human, Knowledge, Moonshine, Reality, Wisdom
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Age, Distrust, Doctrine, Famous, Humor, Old, Wisdom
Cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Always, Clever, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Making a Decision, Making mistakes, Meaningful, Wisdom, Wise
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Democracy, Famous, Ignorance, Individual, Pathetic, Wisdom
Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Computers, Desires, Greater, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Leads, Wisdom, Wise
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Compromise, Famous, Hate, Inspirational, Learning, Love, Stronger, Wisdom
The origin of civilization is man’s determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
Author: H. C. BaileyTopics: Civilization, Determination, Famous, Men, Origin, Wisdom
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Topics: Leads, Self-Sacrificing, Self-Sufficiency, Self-time, Self-trust, Self-Worth, Suffer, Sufferable, Suffering, Times, Times of difficulty, Wisdom, Wise
Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Character, Development, Everything, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Morality, Positive, Practice, Principles, Useful, Virtue, Wisdom
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Always, Clarity, False, Famous, Feelings, Idea, Inspirational, Knowledge, Meaningful, Nothing, Ones, Thinking, Truth, Wisdom, Wrong
But I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Greater, Grow, Hope, Influence, Insight, Learning, Less Using, Meaningful, Positive, Power, Restraint, Self-control, Teach, Wisdom
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Famous, Feelings, God, Honesty, Hostility, Integrity, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Mind Of Man, Positive, Principles, Value, Wisdom
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Author: Gabriel MarcelTopics: Famous, Man, Wisdom
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.
Author: Gabriel MarcelTopics: Famous, Life, Man, Philosophy, Wisdom
Not everything of value in life comes from books- experience the world.
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Creativity, Everything, Experience, Experiences, Experiment, Exploration, Famous, Feelings, Innovation, Inspirational, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Meaningful, Perspective, Positive, Value, Wisdom, World
I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Experience, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Growth, Improvement, Knowledge, Learned, Learning, Life, Made, Meaningful, Mistake, Never, Progress, Reflection, Wisdom
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Call, Communication, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fool, Inspirational, Judgement, Level, Man, Meaningful, Positive, Respect, Wisdom, Wise
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good, Guarding, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful, Openness, Release, Throw, Understanding, Wisdom
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Deep affection, Deepest, Philosopher, Philosophic, Sudden, Suffer, Wisdom, Wise
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Famous, Good, Inspirational, Meaningful, Need, Wisdom
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Choice, Choose, Democracy, Education, Express, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Reads, Real, Wisdom, Wise
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Loveable, Loved, Truth, Wisdom, Wise

Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There’s not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Famous, Productivity, Reality, Technology, Wisdom
We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company’s identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Company, Famous, Identity, Inspirational, Objective, People, Wisdom
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Career, Careful, Great, Grow, Growing, Growing Brave, Male friends, Man, Wisdom, Wise

People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles – job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don’t map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Customer, Expectations, Experience, Famous, Opportunity, People, Wisdom
One of the things that’s interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Famous, Reality, Technology, Wisdom
Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And theres a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Famous, Money, Reality, Wisdom
Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer’s use or by creating uncertainty.
Author: Gabe NewellTopics: Famous, Product, Reality, Technology, Wisdom
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
Topics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Fool, Friendship, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death… just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom