* The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.
-- Rebecca Adamson

* The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
-- Rebecca Adamson

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

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.
-- Rachel Carson

* Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
-- Chen Shui-bian

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-- Albert Einstein

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"...our civilization, so addicted to knowledge, has fled from wisdom. Knowledge is very, very powerful. If it is not tempered and contoured by greater visions, like justice, compassion, beauty, grace and thinking of the next generation and seven generations to come -- then indeed, it is dangerous. Unfortunately, many of our educational systems in the West are still very dangerous places."
-- Matthew Fox

Compassion is the essence of Jesus’ teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual figures from Mohammed to Isaiah, from Lao Tzu to Chief Seattle. Yet compassion has been sentimentalized and severed from its relationship to justice-making and celebration. Creation Spirituality links the struggle for justice with the yearning for mysticism.
-- Matthew Fox

The doors of wisdom are never shut
-- Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
-- Benjamin Franklin

* “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.”
-- Mohandas Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
-- Herbie Hancock

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
-- Herbie Hancock

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
-- Herbie Hancock

* Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-- Jimi Hendrix

* Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
-- Arianna Huffington

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

* "Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
-- Thomas Jefferson

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
-- Helen Keller

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Abraham Lincoln

* "Sometimes older folks tell me: 'I was idealistic and thought I could change the world once, too, but then I grew up.' I'm trying to help us change our definition of growing up, so that it ceases to mean giving up on our ideals, and comes to mean learning how to live our dreams, every day, on the Earth. I want to awaken the passion and creativity of youth, combine it with the wisdom, experience and insight of elders, and transform our world."
~ Ocean Robbins

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Bertrand Russell

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw

* We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. -- Brother Wayne Teasdale

"Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see." -- Brother Wayne Teasdale

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
-- Henry David Thoreau

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
-- Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
-- Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
-- Oprah Winfrey