Best Wisdom And Self-Awareness Quotes
Wisdom And Self-Awareness
Table of Contents
- Self-Discovery and Inner Awareness
- Humility and Open-mindedness
- Teaching and Learning
- Perspective and Understanding
- Action and Decision Making
- Balancing Knowledge and Experience
- Wisdom in Relation to Others
- Contrasts and Paradoxes in Wisdom
- Limits and Growth in Wisdom
- Other
Self-Discovery and Inner Awareness
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.
A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only one point of view. Sometimes try to stand in others’ shoes and just look from there.
A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only one point of view. Sometimes try to stand in others’ shoes and just look from there. And if you can understand the other, you will be able to understand yourself more. The other always sees that you are an egoist. You never see it, you are blind to yourself.
A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.
A wise person is he who can see a person how he sees himself.
He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true wisdom is a thing that lies far deeper than consciousness. The chief gain of increased consciousness is that it unveils an ever-loftier unconsciousness, on whose heights do the sources lie of the purest wisdom.
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Humility and Open-mindedness
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn't know much.
The wisest has nothing, knows nothing, but loves everything.
God is wise! In fact, He is far wiser than the wise man who thinks he is wise!
A wise man will not trust too much those who admire him, even for his wisdom. He knows that an admirer is never truly satisfied until he can substitute pity for his admiration and disdain for his applause. Our admirers are always on the lookout for evidence of our collapse. They find a solace in the fact that our superiority was transitory and that we end as they do—old and useless.
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
He who understands the wise is wise already.
If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.
Teaching and Learning
A wise man is not recognized in the midst of the wise. His wisdom becomes common sense there, unless he's wiser.
Reading is wise man's source of wisdom.
The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's greatest ideas. He will fell inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
Go after wisdom, not go after wise man because wise man shows only the path, he himself is not the path!
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.
The wise man finds the important basis of life.
A wise man nourishes his soul each morning with the word of God and enriches his day with God's wisdom. Psalm 19:7.
One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.
The wise teach, the righteous learn from them; the foolish disregard any knowledge handed to them.
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Perspective and Understanding
Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys. The sun that gilds the summits will gild them more for him than for someone at the top who must endure the bright light; and the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it.
The wise man has always treated religions with respect, not adoration nor blind following alone. He's more logical rather than emotional.
Wise men enrich their wisdom through conscious observation. They grasp the useful information from major happenings of their life.
A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only one point of view. Sometimes try to stand in others’ shoes and just look from there.
The wise man must become a friend of the truth, not a fanatic of the concepts that are believed by many to be true only.
A man of wisdom faces it all and makes his choices that actually can change a lot of things.
A wise woman does not keep her wisdom to herself. She shares wisdom with the world because she knows that through wisdom, many lives can be transformed.
When wise man quits learning, he will be more senile onwards.
A wise man differs from the ordinary; in understanding, knowing and experiencing what Truth is all about.
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Action and Decision Making
In the face of all the uncertainties that surround any decision, the wise man acts in the light of his best judgment illumined by the integrity of his profoundest spiritual insights. Then the rest is in the hands of the future and in the mind of God. The possibility of error, of profound and terrible error, is at once the height and the depth of man’s freedom. For this, God be praised!
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others,the more he has for his own.
Wise men count backward toward zero. They know that's where contentment lies.
A wise man does not argue. A man who argues is not wise. Learned men are not wise, for learning daily adds to ideas and certainties, while wisdom daily lets something go.
The wise man calls everyone to freedom and enlightenment.
A man of wisdom faces it all and makes his choices that actually can change a lot of things.
The wise man's secret: do more, think less.
A wise man learns from his failures. A brilliant man learns how not to fail.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Balancing Knowledge and Experience
Wise men speak only of what they know
Wise men come to seea child of greater wisdomand honor divine.
The wise man reveals more than words spoken.
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known.
Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand," Marron said quietly.
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
When facts speak, the wise man listens.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Wisdom in Relation to Others
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
The only wise God!
Wise men come to seea child of greater wisdomand honor divine.
You will meet a truly wise man not on the right path but on the wrong path because he has come there to find the lost people!
Wise man can make people hearmore lessons than words spoken.
The wisest man is he who is kind to all, compassionate to many, and rude to none.
the true token is understanding the wise words from the wiseman who spoke them to you
When someone studies well, has a successful career, or deals with difficulties well, people think he is a wise man. However, such successes do not mean that one is wise. True wisdom is to know with the consciousness of God.
Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom
A wise human's life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience.
A wise person is able to bring down a thousand armies with a single insight; with wisdom he successfully engages ten thousand armies with just one.
A wise person has more eyes than the eyes can see.
What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
Contrasts and Paradoxes in Wisdom
A man through wit May pass another’s wisdom in the race.
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
The wise have two arms, and yet can grasp many things,and have two eyes, and yet can perceive many things.
The wisest of all is he who knows how to be rather than merely exist.
A wise human’s life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience.
The wisest has nothing, knows nothing, but loves everything.
The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
I do not know who I am, said the wise man, and went his way of knowledge unto the end of days.
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."
What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
The wise man is astonished by anything.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
Limits and Growth in Wisdom
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;the man of benevolence never worries;the man of courage is never afraid.
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
The wise man is one who knows, the significance and nothingness of his life.
A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.
It was said that the wise man is aware of three facts: the first is that problems are temporary, the second is that time is running fast, and the third is that tribulations are nothing but test stations.
A wise man knows how little he knows and upon his death he drinks wisdom from an empty cup.
Sometimes," the Wise Man observed, "to need is...to let go.
Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.
The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.
The man of wisdom has no perplexity; the man of humanity has no worry; the man of courage has no fear.
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
Other
Once upon a time, a wise man said, "I have nothing to say!"Wisdom does not always talk, it talks at the right time, saying the right words.
A wise man is one who creates a harmony between head, heart, and body. In this harmony one comes to the revelation of the source of one’s life, the very center, the soul. And that is the greatest ecstasy possible – not only to human beings but in this whole universe, nothing more is possible. It is already too much.
Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -
The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
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