Wisdom And Speech Ethics

Table of Contents

• Wisdom in Adversity
• Books and Learning
• True Wisdom and Its Nature
• Ethics and Speech
• Proverbs and Platitudes
• Wisdom in Relationships
• Wisdom and Divinity
• Wisdom's Influence on Life
• Philosophy and Contemplation
• Other

Wisdom in Adversity

If you can endure tribulations and, as it says in Proverbs 3, “let love and faithfulness never leave you,” you will gain the wisdom that brings true well-being

In spite of the circumstance, a person who abides in dignity and grace will use the lessons learned as ballast for their ship as they sail through stormy waters—taking the wisdom gained from life and using it to anchor their confidence.

...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113)

He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding

WISEGod decides different paths for us,That a single soul to follow.He trains us through our journeys to earth,And gives us misery and sorrow.Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever,They come and go like waves,A wise treats both as gifts of God,Balanced he always behaves.From : RAINS OF GEMSISBN : a) Softcover : 978-1-4828-1304-3 b) Ebook : 978-1-4828-1303-6

Folly and evil are disciples of doom;wisdom and righteousness are servants of life.

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his principles in the middle of this very complex situation, every day for sixty years or more. I think it's something that moves many people about his example.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Books and Learning

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.

Many books mean many teachers; many teachers mean many paths and many paths mean many wisdom and many wisdom mean many lives! Yes, with wisdom you live not one life but many lives!

Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain."Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table."It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. "I did not lead a very wise life myself but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come to age very often through shipwreck and disaster, and at the heart of the whirlpool some men find God.

The keepers of books had been the keepers of wisdom.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

True Wisdom and Its Nature

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

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.

Passion without wisdom destroys itself, and wisdom without passion throws us in the most barren existence. If you want to truly live, you must align your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

Wisdom and idiocy reside within the mind; it depends on each one of us that, how to define its life on which character?

The author of true, real and rare wisdom is God; ask Him!

A life all turbulence and noise may seem,To him that leads it, wise and to be praised;But wisdom is a pearl with most successSought in still water, and beneath clear skies.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Ethics and Speech

Wisdom of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) " You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness "- Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him).

Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, butencourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of hissoul, refreshed by water.

Give a man a proverb and he’ll muse for a moment.Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb and he’ll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you...

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

Proverbs and Platitudes

Proverb is a profound statement. Even the Almighty God, in his infinite wisdom, authored a book called proverbs for the benefit of humans in general.

Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.

Give a man a proverb and he’ll muse for a moment.Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb and he’ll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Wisdom in Relationships

No one in the world, not even the Creator Lord Bramha, can predict when, where or in which way, some person or the other would be of great service to oneself; hence true wisdom lies in skilfully establishing excellent relations with everyone and making every effort to maintain them.

A wise person seeks to make peace with the truth, especially when it's personal and even when it hurts.

A person must escape living an external life devoted to sensation in order to discover the reality of their existence. Reading taught me the wisdom behind Socrates bold statement that an astute person acknowledges their personal ignorance and seeks to eliminate ignorance by acquiring knowledge through conscientious exploration of the realm of reality.

My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; ‘living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships’.

Said Leah, 'How do children learn if they aren't punished when they do wrong?''They are punished,' said Jacob 'Just not alOrways in obvious ways. When you're wicked, then Wisdom departs from you. You become more and more like an animal--like the baboons of the wilderness, or like a jackal. But when you're righteous, Wisdom dwells with you like a dear friend, and whispers always in your ear.

Unlike many spiritual leaders, Dalai Lama is never been in a position to just sit on a mountain top handing out wisdom. He's had to live out his principles in the middle of this very complex situation, every day for sixty years or more. I think it's something that moves many people about his example.

No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.

The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you...

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Wisdom and Divinity

Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him. The truth that all other ethical teachers proclaimed, and the light that they gave to the world, was not IN them, but OUTSIDE them. Our Divine Lord, however, identified Divine Wisdom with Himself. It was the first time in history that it was ever done, and it has never been done since.

When a person acts in accordance to God’s standards, he gets God’s wisdom.

"..come not nigh to shameful deeds, whether open or secret;"take not life, which GOD hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.

The author of true, real and rare wisdom is God; ask Him!

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Wisdom's Influence on Life

The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).

A very thin line separates wisdom from wickedness.

Passion without wisdom destroys itself, and wisdom without passion throws us in the most barren existence. If you want to truly live, you must align your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

The donkey heard the book gives wisdom and ate it.

Every great understanding must be understood by the least among fools,for greatness is an element of misery..

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

The cloth of a person is never a true measure of his wisdom and understanding

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom...in a clarification of life--not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

Philosophy and Contemplation

WisdomWhen I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange -- my youth.

...the collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Other

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Who strive not for objects unattainable, grieve not for what lost and gone be, Who suffer not mind clouded amid mishap, have intellect with wisdom truly.[26] - 33 Mahatma Vidur

The learned are well pleased to seem so to others and to be accounted wise, but much that is to be found in learning little profiteth the soul. He that is intent upon things other than those that will help his soul's salvation is lacking in wisdom. Words will not satisfy the soul; but a good life giveth comfort to the mind, and a pure conscience affordeth great confidence in the sight of God.

The pleasant words of the wise calm the hearts.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,to seek folly is to seek evil,to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

The Hollow man makes most noise ofIgnorance than wisdom;Oh, the modern man!

Those who are capable of understanding the powers of wisdom, are those who are walking toward the righteous path.

...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.

WISEGod decides different paths for us,That a single soul to follow.He trains us through our journeys to earth,And gives us misery and sorrow.Sufferings or happiness, none stay forever,They come and go like waves,A wise treats both as gifts of God,Balanced he always behaves.From - RAINS OF GEMS ISBN 978-4828-1304-3

'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

A slave of wisdom is a master of many.

A student of wisdom becomes a professor of life.

To compare the Quote with the Quote is the fragrance of the wisdom and knowledge, but own thoughts are the essence of that.

Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;behind our reckless ones, bombs.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

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