Gain Wisdom Quotes

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the "otherness" we all experience. ~ Nancy Pearl

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. ~ Oprah Winfrey

We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

To Gain Knowledge One Has To Study Or Hear, But To Gain Wisdom One Has To Observe". ~ Venugopal Acharya

We often learn to just earn dirty paper and forget to gain the wisdom needed to earn a life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Most wise people are fucked up. You don't gain wisdom from pleasant experiences, after all - you buy it with pain. ~ Dianne Sylvan

Knowledge will reveal its value only when we use it to gain wisdom through experience. ~ Debasish Mridha

A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has a choice to determine how and if it will be received. ~ Molly Friedenfeld

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable? ~ Lisa Unger

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. ~ Kenny Rogers

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time. ~ Van Jones

Failure is not always bad; it gives you an opportunity to gain wisdom, even if it makes you sad. ~ Debasish Mridha

Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions. ~ Debasish Mridha

Pain is part of how I get inspiration and part of how I gain wisdom on life. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I don't transform it, I just let it be. I kind of let it move through me, let it consume me and I let it take me over and hurt me, and I let it go away when it's ready to go away and I understand that it's just part of the process. ~ Brett Dennen

For one to gain wisdom one most first overcome emotions and understand it's causes and effects on others and yourself. ~ Nicholas Lopez

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations. ~ Chris Prentiss

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible. ~ Frederick Lenz

In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies. ~ Megan Karasch

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom. ~ Albert Einstein

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. ~ Oliver Sacks

True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom. ~ Debasish Mridha

The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom. ~ Pearl Zhu

What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom. ~ Kate Klimo

To gain wisdom, try to understand with love. ~ Debasish Mridha

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. ~ Michel De Montaigne

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won. ~ Lloyd Alexander

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ~ Robert F. Kennedy

When I was a kid, a young man, I was terribly concerned about getting my philosophy together. But as I've done my grieving I've given up on that and settled on a pretty simple deal: The object of life is to gain wisdom. And that's what I'm trying to do. ~ Elizabeth Harper Neeld

Denying our children the opportunity to gain wisdom directly from the trees and dance in the moonlight with the other high lonesome renegades and limping outlaws is about our own fear and comfort. Their hearts need to know the wild too. ~ Brene Brown

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars
To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are
Please, I need proof ~ Barry Privett

Knowledge will help you to gain wisdom; wisdom will open your mind to being kind. ~ Debasish Mridha

We gain knowledge from education; we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience. ~ Debasish Mridha

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Love has only feelings, but no meanings. ~ Debasish Mridha

Knowledge is your shield;
wisdom is your spear. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Once you realize the magic of life is inside you; its impossible not to see it outside as well. ~ Renae A. Sauter

Your believability influences your accessibility to possibilty. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The Supreme Being longs to hear His Children talk to Him every day at any time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hurry is violence on the soul. ~ John Mark Comer

Nothing is more important in life than happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom. ~ Sun Ra

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property. ~ Michel De Montaigne

But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees ... ~ George Eliot

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man. ~ William Penn

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. ~ Brian Tracy

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

I rise with every sunrise. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them. ~ Galileo Galilei

What if we spoke every word as if it was our last?
Would we hurry to impress the masses with our wisdom?
Would we capture humanity in a poets hurried flow?
Would you even care?
I could speak as if my words were my last.
But you wouldn't remember them until I'm gone. ~ Elizabeth Novak

An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side. ~ Sijdah Hussain

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war. ~ Debasish Mridha

To be strong enough to know when you are weak, brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.

Not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of the difficulty and challenge.

Not to substitute words for actions.

To be proud and unbending in honest failure but humble and gentle in success.

To seek out and experience a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of lift, an appetite of adventure over love of ease.

To seek a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination and to exercise a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity.

To be modest so that you will appreciate the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

To be serious, yet never to take yourself too seriously; to cry, but also to laugh.

To discover the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what is next, and the joy and inspiration of life. ~ Mark Weber

You only need grace to allow the light and good spirit of your sacred-self to exist. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The size of your thoughts is more important than the size of your wallet. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it. ~ William Morris

Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. The seagull may intend to fly away, may decide to do so, may talk with the other seagulls about how wonderful it is to fly, but until the seagull flaps his wings and takes to the air, he is still on the dock. There's no difference between that gull and all the others. Likewise, there is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you. ~ Andy Andrews

Such is the joy of concluding a day performing duties earnestly leaving ends upon His feet! I have nothing to gain here except virtues, nothing to lose except love, O Lord, I am here to breathe the beauty of life! ~ Preeth Nambiar

Love for books,love for wisdom. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge's surest logic is the lack of knowledge. ~ Sorin Cerin

I am the thread that ties you all together. ~ Abhijit Naskar

...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an ironic one if a hidden relation is discovered in the incongruity. If virtue becomes vice through some hidden defect in the virtue; if strength becomes weakness because of the vanity to which strength may prompt the mighty man or nation; if security is transmuted into insecurity because too much reliance is placed upon it; if wisdom becomes folly because it does not know its own limits – in all such cases the situation is ironic.
The ironic situation is distinguished from a pathetic one by the fact that the person involved in it bears some responsibility from it. It is differentiated from tragedy by the fact that the responsibility is related to an unconscious weakness rather than a conscious resolution. While a pathetic or a tragic situation is not dissolved when a person becomes conscious of his involvement in it, an ironic situation must dissolve, if men or nations are made aware of their complicity in it…. or it leads to a desperate accentuation of the vanities to the point where irony turns into pure evil. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

What is life but an attempt to let our immortal self defeat our mortality? ~ Noha Alaa El-Din

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest. ~ Abhijit Naskar

At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent. ~ Joel Derfner

Unless you leave the known paths, no one will realize your footprints! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways. ~ Katherine Paterson

Like the Phoenix, we can observe in our own lives that disintegration brings with it transformation and rebirth. ~ Donna Labermeier

I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book. ~ Debasish Mridha

The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other. ~ Quinn Loftis

There's something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it's the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she conveys, or the way her good looks have always been further enhanced by the ever-present twinkle in her eyes or the wisdom you sense behind those orbs. ~ Robert Osborne

The beginning of wisdom, I believe, is our ability to accept an inherent messiness in our explanation of what's going on. Nowhere is it written that human minds should be able to give a full accounting of creation in all dimensions and on all levels. Ludwig Wittgenstein had the idea that philosophy should be what he called "true enough." I think that's a great idea. True enough is as true as can be gotten. The imagination is chaos. New forms are fetched out of it. The creative act is to let down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended and then to attempt to bring out of it ideas. ~ Rupert Sheldrake