#wisdom

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beauty #constant #constants #eternal #eternity

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully. ↗

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

#beauty

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#art #attained #fool #hast #imagining

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#discriminate #evil #function #good #good and evil

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself. ↗

— Daphne Delacroix

#perfection #skill #wisdom #inspirational

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#difference #fool #generally #greatest #happiest

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#doubt #enter #into #must #pass

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#companion #even #genius #inseparable #moderation

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#guide #live #living #tool #tragedy

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. ↗