Wisdom
Humanity is to love mankind and wisdom is to remove its evil.
Tung Chung-Shu
It is better to follow your own path, however imperfectly, than to follow someone else’s perfectly.
The Bhagavad Gita
If something can be done about it, What need is there for dejection? And if nothing can be done about it, what use is there for being dejected?
Shantideva
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts.
Gautama Buddha
If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.
Apostle James
If something is true, no matter who said it, it is always from the Holy Spirit.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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.
Reinhold Niebuhr
With a deeper understanding of reality, you can go beyond appearances and relate to the world in a much more appropriate, effective, and realistic manner.
The Dalai Lama
The habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom.
Alfred North Whitehead
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T. S. Eliot
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Contemplation allows us to see the truth of things in their wholeness.
Richard Rohr
The larger the island of knowledge, the larger the shoreline of wonder…
Huston Smith
The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.
Masao Abe
God speaks not in the whirlwind, the earthquake, or the fire but in the still, small voice that echoes in the silence of the soul…
Jonathan Sacks
I am blind and do not see the things of this world; but when the light comes from above, it enlightens my heart and I can see, for the Eye of my heart sees everything; and through this vision I can help my people.
Black Elk [Heȟáka Sápa]
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot