#wisdo

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

#philosophy #power #public-service #tyranny #virtue

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#chiefly #composer #exposure #false #i

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#beauty #direction #life #look #love

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#foreground #growing #i #into #life

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#life #philosophy #religion #wisdom #life

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#equally #every #execute #indication #planned

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#assume #being #difficult #full #going

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#advice #any #counsel #deeply #feel

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#deceives #few #few people #good #people

Turn your wounds into wisdom. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#into #turn #wounds #your