Quotes about Wisdom

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

Dear God, Thank you for this new day, its beauty and its light. Thank You for my chance to begin again. Free me from the limitations of yesterday. Today may I be reborn. May I become more fully a reflection of Your radiance. Give me strength and compassion and courage and wisdom. Show me the light in myself and others. May I recognize the good that is available everywhere.

Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.

love requires a different kind of "seeing" than we're used to—a different kind of knowing or thinking. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. It's a "world beyond

It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.