We often used to say about "Wisdom". What is the Wisdom? How will we define on that word? Most of the famous philosophers and various kinds of books and many websites define differently on that word. There 're many "Quotes" concerning with Wisdom. Among them, may I recount you my favorite Quotes.
What is Wisdom and How Can We Develop It?
Robert J. Sternberg
Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale Wisdom is the use of one’s intelligence and experience as mediated by values toward the achievement of a common good through a balance among (1) intrapersonal, (2) interpersonal, and (3) extrapersonal interests, over the (1) short and (2) long terms, to achieve a balance among (1) adaptation to existing environments, (2) shaping of existing environments, and (3) selection of new environments. This article discusses the balance theory of wisdom, and how wisdom can be assessed and developed. Key Words: wisdom • common good • values • intelligence Cicero; The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Georg C. Lichtenberg;
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Isaac D'Isaeli:
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. Mark Twain:
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. Marlene Dietrich:
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself. Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Pierre Abelard:
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. Rachel Carson:
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Samuel Smiles:
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Sophocles:
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Tryon Edwards:
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. Mary Catherine Bateson:
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another. Kalidasa:
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn! William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. While I 'm trying to publish this post, I have a plan. It's "may I request you to translate some Quotations among them". I aim to taste the visitors who 're poor in English. If you had translated some Quotations in Myanmar, email me. I will show you by your nick or name in my blog.
I'm looking forward to your translations.
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