Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
Simplistic Being Wise quotations
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.
They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things.
He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
The future depends on what we do in the present
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Great minds think alone.
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.
Let me tell you how to love all equally.
Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others.
The most miserable are those who do the least.
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.
If you eat three times a day, you become fat.
If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop
You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all.
It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.