Wisdom And Self-Control

Table of Contents

• Sharing and Openness
• Emotional Regulation
• Self-Reflection and Humility
• Cynicism and Wisdom
• Prudence and Vigilance
• Learning and Growth
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Arrogance and Humility
• The Nature of Wisdom
• Other

Sharing and Openness

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. And if wisdom were given me under the express condition that it must be kept hidden and not uttered, I should refuse it.No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...

The secret to keeping wisdom right is monotony and forgiveness.

There is wisdom in always exploring the counterpoint- sometimes a silver cloud has a dark lining too.

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection,and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain.

Secret behind My Wisdom is that I saw fault of others and I simply Avoided that.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.

I know what’s wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom that neglects method leads to excessive introversion and an inability to effectively communicate with others. Method without wisdom can produce well-intentioned but naive and superficial acts of altruism that alleviate merely the symptoms of suffering without tackling the root cause of the problem.

Emotional Regulation

Wisdom and freedom require the ability to allow the natural flow of emotions to come and go, experiencing emotions but not being controlled by emotions. Always having to prevent or suppress emotions is a form of being controlled by emotions.

As the knowledge grows, wisdom increases, when that increases, the human becomes able to control its anger. From that starts the vision and insight. Consequently, dies the ego

Wisdom comes from not only in the understanding that often times we say no to things too easily and quickly, but also in knowing that that ‘no’ for the sake of your physical and mental wellbeing can also be a reasonable and grounded decision for which you shouldn’t feel the need to feel guilty.

Lettie sighed—wisdom seems to be highly correlated with sighing.

Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness.

When passion enters at the Foregate, wisdom goes out of the postern.

Self-Reflection and Humility

When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

It’s the beginning of wisdom when you admit you’ve gone astray.

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don’t wisdom teach this?

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Cynicism and Wisdom

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

We tend to mistrust our own natures, as if uncontrolled we'd be freaky, dangerous, hateful, unacceptable, or at best, dull. I think in our culture we fear wisdom.

To live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness is to humbly acknowledge the limitations of the rational, scientific, finite mind and to freely embrace mystery.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

Prudence and Vigilance

Vigilance enables wisdom and is the key to freewill

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Learning and Growth

When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.

I had to follow the ineradicable foolishness which furnishes the steps to true wisdom.

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

I confess that I have been blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

It’s the beginning of wisdom when you admit you’ve gone astray.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

I know what’s wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don’t you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

Knowledge and Understanding

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT

The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.

It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Arrogance and Humility

When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity. Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool. Progress daily in your own uncertainty.

When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

I know what’s wrong with me; and knowing your own flaws is the beginning of wisdom.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.

Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

The Nature of Wisdom

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven’t got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.

Other

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power completely to articulate it.

Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication.

Don't judge with your heart,judge with your wisdom. In the same vein don't judge as the multitude,judge as one with wisdom.

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

There's kind of wisdom that must be firstly rejected before accepted.

To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom.

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

The key to wisdom is silent observation and reflection.

Defeating with dialogue is the certification of wisdom and insight.

From defilement can come much wisdom

...the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

for your steady nerves, prudent judgment and great wisdom.

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You’ve got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn’t cluttered with them. That way, you’re better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds – success.

It is not yielding to have the wisdom to know what is right. You hide yourself behind the closed eyelids of the ego.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

When one’s function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the “do’s” it might be easier to obey the “don’ts”

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.

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