Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. "

Related Quotes:

" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "

Sharon Salzberg

" Giving opens the way for receiving. "

Florence Scovel Shinn

" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "

" Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. "

" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "

" Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. "

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "

" I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows. "

" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "

" Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. "

" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "

" Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. "

" Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well. "

" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

William O. Douglas

" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "

" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "

" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "