Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. — Samuel Johnson
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. — Evelyn Waugh
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius
Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence. — Swami Muktananda
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. — Arthur Rimbaud
True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love. — L. Ron Hubbard
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. — Plato
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. — Thomas Carlyle
'Love and gratitude' are the words that must serve as the guide for the world. — Masaru Emoto
Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things. She has given the king on high the kiss of peace. — Hildegard of Bingen
Short Love And Wisdom Quotes
Love is the crowning grace of humanity. — Petrarch
Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way. — Mary Baker Eddy
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. — Sigmund Freud
The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be. — Bob Marley
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. — Euripides
Top 10 Love And Wisdom Quotes
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. — Queen Elizabeth II
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Love And Wisdom Image Quotes
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. — Rumi
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
Wise And Wisdom Quotes
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
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ? — Gene Wilder
Be foolish in love, because love is all there is.
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him. — Al-Shafi‘i
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. — Laurell K. Hamilton
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. — Ronald Reagan
Love all, trust few, do wrong to no one
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable. — Hubert H. Humphrey
A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything. — Carlos Castaneda
Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit. — Danny Wallace
Tears are words that heart can't express.
When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it . — Hubert H. Humphrey
For the May Day is the great day,
Sung along the old straight track.
And those who ancient lines did ley
Will heed this song that calls them back...
Pass the cup, and pass the Lady,
And pass the plate to all who hunger,
Pass the wit of ancient wisdom,
Pass the cup of crimson wonder. — Jethro Tull
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. — Yogi Berra
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn. — Louis L'Amour
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country. — Hubert H. Humphrey
There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Wise Love Quotes
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. — Ellen G. White
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith
Wise girls kiss but never love,
Listen but never believe,
And leave befor they are left. — Marilyn Monroe
Victims love entertainment, leaders love education.
Give more than is expected. Love more than seems wise. Serve more than seems necessary. Help more than is asked. — Cory Booker
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud
Those who are heartless, once cared too much. — Frank Ocean
We are asleep until we fall in love
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism. — Robert Kiyosaki
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
Wisdom And Knowledge Quotes
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. — Albert Einstein
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? — Ibn Taymiyyah
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Choose your love; love your choice.
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus
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. — Leo Tolstoy
Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. — Plato
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. — Ramakrishna
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
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. — Gorgias
Wisdom And Friendship Quotes
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. — Oswald Chambers
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. — Mao Zedong
It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. — Epicurus
We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike. — Anneli Rufus
The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited. — Morihei Ueshiba
We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being. — Dalai Lama
If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. — Muhammad Ali
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — C. S. Lewis
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba
Strength And Wisdom Quotes
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore. — Saint Patrick
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. — Napoleon Hill
It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens. — Amy Carmichael
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't go through the kinds of things I've gone through, as much as I have, without re-evaluating yourself and making adjustments. And you can't endure these horrendous circumstances without developing a certain level of strength and wisdom. — T.I.
Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love. — Wilferd Peterson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whether you are the chairperson of the board or want to charm him, you need beauty and femininity as well as wisdom and strength. — Estee Lauder
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! — Hafez
Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will. — Vernon Howard
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. — Stephen Gaskin
Take an old man’s counsel and an experienced man’s knowledge — Greek Proverbs
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age — Jawaharlal Nehru
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. — William Saroyan
Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard. — Simon Greenleaf
Wise Wisdom Quotes
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. — Ibn Taymiyyah
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. — Socrates
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" — Al-Ghazali
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. — Ravi Zacharias
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend. — Rabia Basri
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. — Otto von Bismarck
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. — Kahlil Gibran
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. — Neil Gaiman
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: the nashaq (ardent love), and finally tatayyum. — Ibn Taymiyyah
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black. — Robert Kennedy
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The wisdom of the worker is revealed in his handiwork. — Anthony of Padua
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. — Rumi
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. — Sarada Devi
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. — Hafez
The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better. — Elisabeth Elliot
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi
Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness. — Mata Amritanandamayi
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love — John Lennon
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. — Jim Rohn
The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist. — Ellen G. White
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen. — Ephrem the Syrian
Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love.
Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom.
Between Love and Wisdom
my life continuously flows. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. — Angeles Arrien
Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder. — Samuel Johnson
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. — Confucius
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. — Austin Osman Spare
Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you. — Rumi
Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius
Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims. — Uthman ibn Affan
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. — Lao Tzu
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