Wise Sayings II

To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wise Sayings About Discernment

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~William James
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. ~ Cato
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ~ Mark Twain

True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come. ~ Terence

Common sense is genius in homespun. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. ~ Barry LePatner

One has no protecting power save prudence. ~ Juvenal

Wise Sayings About Self-Control

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The coward threatens when he is safe. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant taste of death but once. ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Les premiers sentiments sont toujours les plus naturels.
- First feelings are always the most natural. ~ Louis XIV

One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thought, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves. ~David O. Mckay

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Wise Sayings About Creativity

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. ~ George Lois

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

Creativity is ... seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. ~ Michele Shea

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. ~ Norman Podhoretz

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ~ Woodrow Wilson