111 Quotations Found

Wisdom is anticipating the consequences of your choices.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

A large part of wisdom is knowing what to ignore. A large part of expertise is knowing where to place your attention.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Success / Failure, Wisdom

Wisdom is the ability to allow a diversity of values and thoughts to emerge within your own mind, yet still be able to act despite them. […] The opposite is fanaticism. Fanaticism may produce confidence and relieve anxiety. But fanaticism is a tyranny of our internal mental order. It is when one belief or value pushes all other competing factions out of our consciousness.

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Author: Mark Manson | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure, Wisdom

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

Author: Nisargadatta Maharaj | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Love, Wisdom

I am long past blame and praise, or, rather, I am not yet ready for them; there is so much still waiting to be understood.

Author: Jane Ellen Harrison | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Wisdom

A wise man can learn from another man’s experience; a fool cannot learn even from his own.

Author: Will Durant | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Wisdom

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it. … [ Read more ]

Author: Rene Descartes | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom

Tarde o temprano aprenderemos que los amores más grandes pueden terminar en una sola noche. Que los mejores amigos pueden transformarse en grandes desconocidos y que éstos pueden convertirse en grandes amigos.

Tarde o temprano, aprenderemos que nunca terminamos de conocer a alguien, ni siquiera a nosotros mismos. Que el ”nunca más” nunca se cumple, y que el ”para siempre” siempre se termina.

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Author: Unknown | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

You can achieve wisdom in three ways. The first way is the way of meditation. This is the most noble way. The second way is the way of imitation. This is the easiest and least satisfying way. Thirdly, there is the way of experience. This is the most difficult way.

Author: Confucius | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the first lesson of wisdom. Let us be humble, and we will become wise. Let us know our weakness, and it will give us power.

Author: William Ellery Channing | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

I would not go so far as to claim that knowledge and wisdom are mutually exclusive; but they are far from being communicating vessels, and the level of one has no bearing on that of the other. More people have gained wisdom from unknowledge, which is not the same as ignorance, than from knowledge.

Author: Erwin Chargaff | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Life is made up of patterns. Patterns of eating, thirst, sleep, and fight-or-flight are crucial to our individual survival; patterns of courtship, sex, attachment, conflict, play, creativity, family life, and collaboration are crucial to our collective survival. Wisdom is our ability to perceive these patterns and to shape them into coherent chapters within the longer narrative of our lives.

Author: Dacher Keltner | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

We are as clever with our machines and technologies as we are simple-minded in the management of our emotions. We are, in terms of wisdom, little more advanced than the ancient Sumerians or the Picts. We have the technology of an advanced civilization balancing precariously on an emotional base that has not developed much since we dwelt in caves. We have the appetites and destructive … [ Read more ]

Author: Alain de Botton | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Wisdom

Wisdom sometimes depends on seeing how much knowledge doesn’t know and how much every day is shaped by unexpectedness.

Author: Pico Iyer | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Wisdom

The things people most commonly dread are as unworthy of dread to the wise person as the things they most desire are of wise desire.

Author: Maria Popova | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well.

Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Wisdom

In much wisdom there is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Author: Andrei Tarkovsky | Subjects: Concepts, Insight, Life & Society, Pain & Suffering, Wisdom