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“With how far I have come, I hope to inspire others to embrace their own backgrounds and draw strength from their early years because our roots are a source of power and wisdom, and they shape us into the unique individuals we become.”
Yvonne Nelson (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been held that the first two elements of the name form that of the Sumerian god Enki, the god of water and wisdom, the Ea of the Babylonians and Assyrians. In the third element, du, we saw the Sumerian ideogram meaning to create, produce, and we therefore reproduced the whole name in Babylonian with Ea-bānī, or or . (p. 133)”
Giuseppe Furlani (1885–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don’t need millions to start a business. All you need is the zeal, tenacity and wisdom from God.”
Ugonna Umerou wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing binds men as closely as Truth and Virtue. Tito was compassionate and full of goodness; and Marcus Aurelius was educated and a true philosopher, that is, a friend of wisdom. He knew how to admire and imitate Titus, and together with virtue and science he combined the courage and genius of heroes, gods and great captains, as well as the art or qualities of great administrators. (p. 26)”
Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We Po Valley will go to Brussels, we will bring some wisdom of the cross to those people of pedophiles! (quoted ibidem)”
Roberto Calderoli (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. Now he worries that without a 'long-leg' — someone who knows someone who can help him — his degrees will do nothing but adorn the walls of his parents' low-rent house.”
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Pray and get along with your life.”
Alaba Lawson (1951–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time doesn't heal psychological wounds. Perspective does...Time creates distance. Reflection offers wisdom.”
Adam Grant (born 1981) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Post on Twitter/X, December 15, 2023.
“Yes, Islam restrains me, but restraint is not oppression, and boundaries can be comforting and nurturing. Freedom does not necessarily bring happiness, nor does an abundance of choices automatically mean that we will make the right one. I need guidance and wisdom; I need grace and forgiveness.”
Leila Aboulela (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[In Did Jesus Exist] I agued that Paul sincerely believed that the evidence (not restricted to the Wisdom Literature) pointed to a historical Jesus who had lived well before his own day; and I leave open the question as to whether such a person had in fact existed and lived the obscure live that Paul supposed of him. (There is no means of deciding this issue.)”
G. A. Wells (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paul sincerely believed that the evidence (not restricted to the Wisdom literature) pointed to a historical Jesus who had lived well before his own day; and I leave open the question as to whether such a person had in fact existed and lived the obscure life that Paul supposed of him. (There is no means of deciding this issue.)”
G. A. Wells (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most important thing is to (follow) the wisdom of people from the past who used to live with water.”
Kotchakorn Voraakhom (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That dialog about solutions is often about scale and speed; yet, we would benefit from considering solutions at depth with “heart-centered wisdom” and love as a powerful leverage point”
Katharine Wilkinson (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hire many people that are older … and they have so much more wisdom.” Corcoran said. “There’s no circumstance that they run into that they haven’t seen before and have a solution for. So you take a lot less training, you have a lot more life experience and judgment.”
Barbara Corcoran (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s great wisdom in transitional realms between wakefulness and sleep. Right before you fall asleep, what thoughts and ideas come to you? How do you feel when you wake from a dream? [...] Keeping a dream journal might be of use. Place a pen and paper next to the bed, and as soon as you wake up, begin writing immediately with as much detail as possible before doing anything else.”
Rick Rubin (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No,” Horn replied. “I am a seeker of wisdom.” The old man squinted, taking in Horn’s scars, motley head of fire-scarred hair, and ropy muscles. “Looks like you haven’t found it yet, or you’d have learned to stay out of trouble.”
Jay Lake (1964–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience.”
Jay Lake (1964–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s really a pleasure to come here and to be able to share that mission, that volume (and) to share what it is that is so meaningful about those 4,000 years of wisdom in the Jewish tradition and how it’s affected my career and my life,”
Sarah Hurwitz (born 1981) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Former White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaks on Jewish identity at Northwestern Hillel The Daily Northwestern (October 13, 2023)
“Everyone's like, ‘Oh, you're on a spiritual journey.’ I was not. It could have been a karate class or ceramics class,” “This was 4,000 years of wisdom on the human condition. What it means to be a good person, what it means to live a worthy life, what it means to find profound spiritual connection. I just felt like, ‘where has this been all my life?’”
Sarah Hurwitz (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were lots of intro ‘nuts and bolts books,’ which were fine,” Hurwitz said. “There were lots of very boring, esoteric academic books, which were less fine, and there was just nothing that spoke to someone like me who was like, ‘alright, I want the deepest, most transformational, most life changing wisdom, and I also need the basics’ and so I just thought maybe I can write a book like that.”
Sarah Hurwitz (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope we go back into our Indian roots in the next century, bring them to the surface, study them. There is only an elite that knows of the great richness and wisdom in the Popol Vuh (The Book of the Dawn of Life), we are going to get as much from this as we do from our Spanish heritage.”
Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Bhagavad Gita is one of the noblest scriptures of India, one of the deepest scriptures of the world ... a symbolic scripture, with many meanings, containing many truths .... [that] forms the living heart of the Eastern wisdom.”
Charles Johnston (Theosophist) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Johnston, Charles Bhagavad Gita: "The Song Of the Master" - By trans. (Flushing, New York: Charles Johnston, 1908, pp. vi-xvii. , as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning conti…
“With unity and collective wisdom, we can accomplish any goal. I am confident that with the spirit of partnership and cooperation, we will be able to prevail over the virus, build an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world with lasting peace, universal security and common development, and together foster a community with a shared future for mankind.”
Li Zhanshu (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first nation (to have cultivated science) is India. This is a powerful nation having a large population, and a rich kingdom (possession). India is known for the wisdom of its people. Over many centuries, all the kings of the past have recognized the ability of the Indians in all the branches of knowledge.”
Said al-Andalusi (1029–1070) said by 1070 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fact, conservatism is not a body of principles, but a tone, an attitude. That attitude does indeed tend to conduce towards a respect for the wisdom acquired by human beings through long ages and towards skepticism of social blueprints...”
Frank Meyer (1909–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My only wealth is philosophy. My only pride is wisdom.”
Þórbergur Þórðarson (1888–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Senate must remain a beacon of stability, wisdom and national purpose.”
Godswill Akpabio (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This Chapel shall stand as a moral compass in the machinery of governance. Here, lawmakers will seek wisdom before exercising legislation... For before there were parliaments, He spoke order into chaos. Before there were constitutions, He established justice in the foundations of the earth and inscribed His will upon the conscience of humanity.”
Godswill Akpabio (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By increasing access to our magnificent collections, verging now on half a billion items, we cast the myriad elements of civilization into the living world—in all their error, and wisdom, and beauty—to be reconsidered, remade, and remembered by the next generation.”
Claudine Gay (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learned that Bharat is the most ancient source of living wisdom (spirituality) and that it has always generated its revelations world wide.”
Keith Critchlow (1933–2020) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Keith Critchlow, an architect known for his works on sacred geometry and also a former professor of Islamic Art at the Royal College of Art in London. As quoted in "Indian Ethos and Values in Management", McGraw Hill In…
“Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!”
Bryce Courtenay (1933–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your highness, if you think to have heavy suspicion is wisdom, then your head is not well.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is wisdom that sets a man free. Nothing else.”
George King (1919–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one lies deliberately, one will never gain wisdom. This is law.”
George King (1919–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the wisdom of the Acoli, time is not stupidly split up into seconds and minutes. It does not flow like beer in a pot that is sucked until it is finished.”
Okot p'Bitek (1931–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My hope for us is that our journey through the mysteries of the second half of life will provide a meaningful retrospective and compelling incentive to embrace elderhood with dignity, grace, wisdom, and unlimited generativity. May we all remember that to leave the world a better place for future generations is to have lived a meaningful life, and to have succeeded.”
Angeles Arrien (1940–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...we must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility. This shift allows the ego's face to recede, the true face to emerge, the five faces to integrate, and wisdom to appear.”
Angeles Arrien (1940–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The shamanic traditions, practiced by agrarian and indigenous peoples the world over, remind us that for centuries human beings have used the wisdom of nature and ritual to support change and life transitions rather than to ignore or deny life processes, as we so often do. (p9)”
Angeles Arrien (1940–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We globalize poverty, especially the poverty of spirit, but Mother Teresa globalized the vocation or the call to preach God's wisdom and spirit of love.”
Lucas Sirkar (1936–2021) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hundreds Mark Fifth Anniversary of Mother Teresa´s Death (5 September 2002) Union of Asian Catholic News
“There are two categories of people, one is the ignorant who needs to be taught knowledge, and the other pretends not to understand. Their goal is to torment you. They need to be beaten to correct them. That is why Allah says repeatedly in Surat Al-Hadid: “And indeed, I have sent down wisdom and sent down iron.”
Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No more to fabled names confined, To thee, supreme, all-perfect mind, My thoughts direct their flight: Wisdom's thy gift, and all her force From thee derived, unchanging source Of intellectual light! O send her sure, her steady ray To regulate my doubtful way Through life's perplexing road, The mists of error to control, And through its gloom direct my soul To happiness and good!”
Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) first seen 1763 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode to Wisdom", sts. 14, 15, in Dodsley's Collection, vol. 3 (2nd ed., 1763), pp. 209–13
“The wisdom is not hiring goons to come and incite people. Where do they get money from for hiring these goons? We have been struggling with the issue of finances but now you see them hiring goons”
Betty Aol Ochan (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Bill aims to strengthen the protection and prevention of abuse of older people, eliminate harmful traditional practices including witchcraft accusations against older people and recognise the responsibilities of older people in passing inter-generational knowledge and wisdom.”
Jane Manganye wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Saw you perchance before the Trojan wall A sister's husband or wife's father fall, A valiant man? for next one's kin and blood Is such affinity most close of all:Or one knit close to you in friendship's bands, Gracious of heart and mighty of his hands? Since nowise lesser than a brother born The comrade is who wisdom understands.”
John William Mackail (1859–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best way to shape and build a promising future is through passionate learning, continuous effort and striving for excellence, empowered by the wisdom of advanced AI and smart w:Metaverse technology, where physical and virtual worlds blend and merge in exciting new dimensions.”
Hary Gunarto (born 1954) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hary Gunarto (2024) cited in "Faculty website" of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, 14 November 2024.
“In my wisdom I told him to summon me through my boss the speaker of parliament but he responded that it was a system which was, but is now not respected(anymore)”
Esther Mbulakubuza Mbayo (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The threat to retaliate massively in the event of a nuclear attack is not rationale...contrary to the usual wisdom, we have no good reason to believe that nuclear deterrence has worked in the past, or that if it has, it will continue to do so in the future...even if nuclear deterrence should be one hundred percent effective, it still increases the probability of nuclear war.”
Robert L. Holmes (born 1935) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert L. Holmes, On War and Morality (1989) Introduction p. 18
“Rural women inspire me. They are the passion of my life and I will do everything and anything for their empowerment. Their knowledge and expertise are crying for a receptive ear, for powerful questions that will unearth and challenge their wisdom.”
Thelma Awori (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Acting has taught me a lot of wisdom, to "go through" some people, to discover some new things in them that I would not easily be able to do in this other reality. I have always tried to discover that one "embryo" in a person, where it comes from, and to cover it as much as I can.”
Mira Banjac (born 1929) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (2022)
“The journey of these different revolutions is, for everyone concerned, a process of acquiring wisdom, and I believe strongly that we have little to lose and a great deal to gain.”
Azza Karam (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source