Human Wisdom Quotes

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection.

With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead.

Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are brought to faith only through the supernatural working of God, and He has promised to work-not through human wisdom or intellectual expertise, but through the preaching of Christ crucified and resurrected from the dead!

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

All humans are dead except those who have knowledge;

and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world;

there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.

Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others.

It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Dance training can't be separate from life training.

Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius;

or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

actions speak louder than words

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Be the change you want to see.

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament.

Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life.

If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.

Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.