Wisdom Is Earned Quotes

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes. ~ Sophia Amoruso

Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is earned. ~ Debasish Mridha

Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hang-ups, unfortunately or fortunately, contain our wealth. Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom. ~ Pema Chodron

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. ~ Joyce Cary

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. ~ Idries Shah

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Om Schooled is the perfect manual for anyone who wants to start teaching yoga to kids. This is not just a theoretical book - it is a step-by-step manual. Sarah Herrington shares the wisdom she has gained from her day-to-day experiences, for many years, teaching all ages of children yoga in the New York School system. ~ Sharon Gannon

Sometimes the only way to succeed is to fail backwards ~ Benny Bellamacina

Kindness is my prayer. Humanity is my abode. ~ Debasish Mridha

I was talking to a friend last night, about pain. She said, "Pain doesn't go away, does it? It just lessens with time." And I said, "I think that the pain can be turned into other things... the pain is like the holes in the ground, but I think that we can turn the holes in the ground into little pools of water we can jump into. It's still a part of us, but, we can change its nature. Hopefully. Sometimes." And I think that just might be true. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Your passion is your connection to God. ~ Amit Ray

Stupidity is not intelligence 'without' wisdom. Rather, it's intelligence 'without the desire' for wisdom, which is stupidity at its finest. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance. ~ Al-Ghazali

Life is to enjoy the joy of peace, not to live in fear of lease. ~ Debasish Mridha

There is an end of human life but there is no end of human love for humanity. ~ Debasish Mridha

Overcoming panic attacks has left me humbled. It's taught me how to be brave. It's left me compassionate to the fears and sufferings of other people. It's given me the wisdom that my thoughts and feelings are simply subjective responses, and don't need to be taken as true reflections of reality.
But the most important thing I've learnt from coping with panic is this: No matter what happens in life, no matter how hard things seem, no matter how painful things are, moments always pass like fluffy clouds in a blue sky, and I will be fine. ~ Julie Farrell

Life is yearning for the adventure of your footsteps. ~ Bryant McGill

You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that blend with this world. No, I am no gypsy, just one who has read a good many books. It is only through reading those great jewels of wisdom that one may see a story in a glint of sunlight, an epic unfold within one's eyes. There are books all around us. Yet it takes reading a good many books by we mortals to be able to see them. ~ Mary-Jean Harris

Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say. ~ Confucius

Truth is a seed whose roots cannot be plucked from reality. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. ~ Jonathan Swift

Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled. ~ Adam Gidwitz

Every breath is a sacred life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The love for nature is the well-spring of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. ~ Margaret Thatcher

The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment. ~ Billy Graham

Perspective makes all the difference. It's not what you look at; it's what you see ... Remember that the sun never actually sets; it's our perspective that makes it appear to. Our sunset is another's sunrise. It's all perspective. How would your life be different if you applied this truth to the things that cause you stress? Letting go isn't about erasing the past; it's about looking at the same event and seeing something different. Activate this power in your life! Take the pain and poison of the past and allow it to nourish a new found wisdom. Remember, you can't change the past, but you can change the labels you place on events. Perspective - it's not what you look at; it's what you see. ~ Steve Maraboli

Fear of women is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Nkosiyazi Shange

Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful. ~ Debasish Mridha

Loving was so joyful and charming.
Forgetting is so tearful and never ending. ~ Debasish Mridha

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them ... My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners ...
It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment ... But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us. ~ Martin Luther

Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor. ~ John C. Bogle

I talk a lot about the value of lust in my book. No, don't freak out! The concept is simply about helping you understand the psychology of being an irresistible woman. There is more to life when we learn how to see lust as a tool of wisdom rather than as the devil's most favorite weapon to deceive and destroy the world. This is the next level of thinking. Are you ready for a paradigm shift? ~ Lebo Grand

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan