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Best Quotes About Wisdom (Top 100)
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost -
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain -
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West -
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein -
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain -
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams -
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw -
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
C.S. Lewis -
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo -
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain -
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle -
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates -
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov -
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein -
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell -
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle -
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey -
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something
Plato -
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway -
The more I see the less I know for sure.
John Lennon -
Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu -
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire -
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain -
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain -
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins -
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein -
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom -
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu -
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
John Lennon -
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz -
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato -
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Albert Einstein -
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln -
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran -
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln -
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein -
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas -
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare -
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke -
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius -
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu -
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius -
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
Dr. Seuss -
It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela -
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle -
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon -
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
Mitch Albom -
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain -
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu -
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
Jimi Hendrix -
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain -
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln -
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius -
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher Hitchens -
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.
Nelson Mandela -
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead -
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo -
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle -
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark Twain -
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee -
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby -
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson -
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner -
My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus
Albert Camus -
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne -
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin -
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott -
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon -
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven -
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. Schulz -
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu -
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein -
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble -
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcolm X -
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius -
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope -
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley -
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
Frank Zappa -
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck -
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
Even More Wisdom Quotes
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu -
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates -
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran -
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato -
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz -
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott -
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant -
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires
Lao Tzu -
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin -
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott -
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran -
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato -
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth -
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke -
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo -
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Mark Twain -
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Abraham Lincoln -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair -
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee -
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James -
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell -
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard -
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo -
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon -
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle -
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole -
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee -
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset -
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great -
I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within.
Louisa May Alcott -
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu -
If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right
Steve Jobs -
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Mark Twain -
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka -
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain -
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius -
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson -
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
William Faulkner -
Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.
Scott Westerfeld -
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner -
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain -
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius -
To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius -
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller -
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan -
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman -
We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
Christopher Paolini -
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell -
He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.
JRR Tolkien -
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach -
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward -
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne -
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton -
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley -
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Albert Camus -
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato -
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw -
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin -
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.
Omar Khayyam -
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller -
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust -
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius -
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington -
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Frederick Douglass -
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard -
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake -
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine -
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
Ravi Zacharias -
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Helen Rowland -
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn -
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
Elvis Presley -
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
Thomas Merton -
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann -
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius -
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
Frederick Douglass -
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher -
It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale -
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton -
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain -
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein -
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain -
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius -
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams -
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein -
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens -
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers -
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Aristotle -
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius -
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
Maimonides -
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams -
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens -
Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
Robert Collier -
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?
William Arthur Ward -
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward -
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison -
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden -
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin -
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell -
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
Byron Katie -
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake -
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
Gene Wilder -
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig -
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran -
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare -
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia -
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus -
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
Richard Dawkins -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Frank McCourt -
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing
Lao Tzu -
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
David Livingstone -
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus -
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley -
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin -
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
Black Elk -
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto von Bismarck -
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein -
Be good and you will be lonely.
Mark Twain -
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain -
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates -
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Robert M. Pirsig -
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley -
My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
Harry S. Truman -
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou -
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
Vernon Howard -
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran -
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs -
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein -
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich -
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein -
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos Castaneda -
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow -
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody -
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire -
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley -
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"as I am surprisingly often"why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard Dawkins -
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges -
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
Elvis Presley -
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin -
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Winston Churchill -
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice -
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
George Eliot -
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes -
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz -
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil Gibran -
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson -
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo -
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen -
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine -
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza -
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny -
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Epicurus -
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu -
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon -
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato -
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
George Orwell -
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
Sun Tzu -
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell -
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
Dejan Stojanovic -
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine -
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle -
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
Thomas Merton -
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin -
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal -
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander -
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde -
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.
Dorothy Day -
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch -
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir -
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer -
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus -
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson -
The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.
Johnny Cash -
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison -
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
Aldous Huxley -
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
Leon Trotsky -
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.
Carlos Castaneda -
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope -
When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.
Patrick Stump -
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran -
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker -
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson -
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Edward P. Morgan -
Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning -
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson -
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
George Sand -
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius -
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot -
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Isocrates -
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven -
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere -
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
Laozi -
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr -
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
Thomas Hobbes -
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus -
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey -
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle -
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli -
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda -
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw -
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis -
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein -
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon -
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa -
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison -
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein -
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton -
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner -
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen -
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace -
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash -
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.
William Blake -
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin -
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus -
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France -
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras -
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 -
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.
Edgar Cayce -
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill -
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley -
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
Hermann Hesse -
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume -
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Thomas Merton -
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow -
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides -
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus -
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frederic Bastiat -
We must become the change we want to see
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo -
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Frederic Bastiat -
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen -
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men—you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.
Thomas Merton -
To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin -
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison -
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan -
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Beryl Markham -
The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton -
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold -
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
Evelyn Waugh -
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Frederic Bastiat -
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
Dejan Stojanovic -
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.
James Madison -
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann -
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana -
I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
Jacques Mayol -
If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
Jackie Gleason -
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland -
You can do anything, but you can't do everything
David Allen -
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost -
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill -
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France -
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather -
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
William Law -
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
Desiderius Erasmus -
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey -
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen -
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono -
Little by little does the trick.
Aesop -
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Annette Funicello -
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu -
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole -
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer -
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
Marcel Proust -
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon -
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern -
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Albert Pike -
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker -
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan -
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Charles Baudelaire -
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
Shakti Gawain -
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes -
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Niccolo Machiavelli -
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand -
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
Amos Tversky -
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
B.K.S. Iyengar -
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...
Claude McKay -
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
Chanakya -
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren -
The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin -
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus -
I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
Townes Van Zandt -
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter Abelard -
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great -
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca -
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard Bach -
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza -
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield -
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Dick Armey -
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain -
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya -
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
John Lennon -
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda -
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike -
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather -
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham -
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin Toffler -
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison -
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden -
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke -
Books do furnish a room.
Anthony Powell -
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan -
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?
Sathya Sai Baba -
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne -
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar -
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates -
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
John Maynard Keynes -
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge -
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson -
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn -
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson -
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
Ludwig von Mises -
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli -
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer -
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee -
I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.
Charlie Sheen -
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
Errol Flynn -
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton -
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake -
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch -
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Euripides -
Those things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin -
Love conquers all things.
Virgil -
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen -
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis -
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Marguerite Yourcenar -
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu -
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron -
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus -
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
Geena Davis -
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Agatha Christie -
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn -
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin -
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis -
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton -
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras -
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
Moliere -
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
William Shakespeare -
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
Juvenal -
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell -
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de Cervantes -
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
Euripides -
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty -
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin -
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius -
Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
Henry Lawson -
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides -
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne -
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman -
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson -
Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.
Gary Zukav -
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein -
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson -
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti -
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
Dejan Stojanovic -
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac -
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France -
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson -
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha -
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric Hoffer -
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France -
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet -
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin -
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Elijah Wood -
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton -
First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal -
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Arnold Bennett -
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell -
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John Updike -
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball -
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach -
Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
Davy Crockett -
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald -
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Be the change you want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
David McCullough -
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau -
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles -
Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill -
The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce Lee -
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley -
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Solon -
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Douglas Bader -
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson -
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts -
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
Chuck Noll -
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan -
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles -
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton -
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."
Mark Twain -
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
James Buchanan -
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Isocrates -
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones -
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes -
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson -
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell -
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya -
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds -
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne -
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings -
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.
Helen Hayes -
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward -
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
Joseph Story -
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
Leonardo da Vinci -
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.
Gordon Moore -
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Aristotle -
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson -
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Anne Bronte -
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Brooks Adams -
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately -
Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
James Dillet Freeman -
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Isak Dinesen -
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
William Arthur Ward -
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges -
The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.
Dejan Stojanovic -
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing
Socrates -
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter -
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift -
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Frank A. Clark -
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus -
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Chinese Proverb -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio -
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins -
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell -
Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible
Cherie Carter-Scott -
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens -
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson -
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Kenny Rogers -
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson -
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams -
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
Alan Paton -
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant -
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos -
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan -
The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.
Dejan Stojanovic -
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Dejan Stojanovic -
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France -
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead -
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick -
Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen -
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm -
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne -
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles -
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
Dejan Stojanovic -
The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am
Laura Schlessinger -
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick -
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather -
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya -
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin -
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel Johnson -
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus -
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson -
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert -
The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
Eugene O'Neill -
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Emile Chartier -
We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard Nimoy -
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino -
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Horace Walpole -
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George Orwell -
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans -
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian -
Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
Bill Bailey -
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes -
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
John Milton -
Individuality is freedom lived.
John Dos Passos -
Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone -
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison -
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
Bodhidharma -
Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht -
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang -
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan -
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden -
The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
James Russell Lowell -
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin -
No man is wise enough by himself.
Plautus -
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver -
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale -
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes -
Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.
Dejan Stojanovic -
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
Benjamin Franklin -
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana -
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
Dejan Stojanovic -
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams -
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Elizabeth George -
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel -
The more you know the less you need to say.
Jim Rohn -
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan -
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies -
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland -
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain -
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes -
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt -
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Herman Hesse -
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian -
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland -
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
Dora Russell -
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young -
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
Diane de Poitiers -
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller -
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew Jackson -
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes -
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
Mary McCarthy -
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides -
The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
Bill Frist -
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann -
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine -
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Bill Bradley -
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius -
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Gerald Brenan -
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams -
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Theroux -
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson -
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius -
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
George Santayana -
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
William Feather -
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover -
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus -
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle -
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Jonathan Swift -
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein -
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner -
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis -
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson -
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young -
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland -
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell -
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson -
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller -
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
James Stephens -
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
George Bernard Shaw -
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips -
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene -
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein -
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have
Frederick Keonig -
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison -
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
George Iles -
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell -
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
Heraclitus -
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes -
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 -
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey -
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield -
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt -
Moderation in all things.
Terence -
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang -
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin -
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
Bhagavad gita -
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
Georges Guynemer -
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass -
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons -
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis -
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
James Harvey Robinson -
The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud -
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian -
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans -
My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.
Elizabeth Kenny -
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young -
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux -
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer -
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein -
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....
Bergen Evans -
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren -
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop -
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams -
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale -
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
Bhagavad gita -
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
Henry Mackenzie -
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Rene Descartes -
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington -
I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason."
Joanna Field -
Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin -
Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Robert Fulghum -
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff -
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson -
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover -
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
Dejan Stojanovic -
It is better to play than do nothing.
Confucius -
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz -
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg -
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
Robert Hughes -
Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin -
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Richard Cecil -
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes -
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer
Oscar Wilde -
You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.
Harrison Ford -
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus -
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd Alexander -
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Dejan Stojanovic -
When following God, Zero we never find.
Dejan Stojanovic -
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Philippe Quinault -
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne -
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Benjamin Franklin -
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
Felix Adler -
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
George Meredith -
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton Collins -
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Miller -
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
Thomas Jefferson -
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu -
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel -
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton -
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra May Harris -
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Myrtle Reed -
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin -
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus -
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith -
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde -
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
James Truslow Adams -
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
Chanakya -
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams, Jr -
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Bergen Evans -
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
Joseph Heller -
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer -
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein -
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor -
Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire -
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Harold Rosenberg -
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius -
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton -
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde -
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.
Annie Dillard -
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
Leo Stein -
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran -
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Scott Adams -
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell -
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn -
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha -
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron -
I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts -
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
Eli Khamarov -
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen
Winston Churchill -
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
Henry Home -
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.
Swami Vivekananda -
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 -
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
Thornton T. Munger -
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard -
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham -
Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am
Rene Descartes -
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
John Russell -
Arrogance diminishes wisdom
Arabian Proverb -
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles -
Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman -
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
Victor Hugo -
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Caecilius Statius -
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
Sigmund Freud -
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James -
The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus -
The wisest have the most authority.
Plato -
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato -
For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!
Laurence Hope -
A star needs a star.
Dejan Stojanovic -
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran -
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Buddha -
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
John Adams -
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle -
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
Abraham Lincoln -
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
Josh Billings -
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
Dejan Stojanovic -
He who is not impatient is not in love
Italian Proverb -
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.
Dejan Stojanovic -
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
Josh Billings -
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.
Joseph Sobran -
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Universe is the Sun watching its own self.
Dejan Stojanovic -
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
John Adams -
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper -
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
Dejan Stojanovic -
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Lao Tzu -
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Lao Tzu -
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.
Lao Tzu -
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana -
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran -
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht -
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
Geraldine Jewsbury -
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
God is a cloud from which rain fell.
Dejan Stojanovic -
God is busy and has no time for you.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.
Dejan Stojanovic -
When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
Dejan Stojanovic -
When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.
Dejan Stojanovic -
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
Saint Augustine -
Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
Dejan Stojanovic -
He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine -
To understand possible means to understand impossible.
Dejan Stojanovic -
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Thomas Fuller -
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
George Orwell -
The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
Dejan Stojanovic -
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour -
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
Benjamin Franklin -
Teaching others, he corrected himself.
Dejan Stojanovic -
I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.
Dejan Stojanovic -
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli -
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
Greek proverb -
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
Greek proverb -
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character
Henry Louis Mencken -
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France -
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest -
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
Kahlil Gibran -
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain -
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill -
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles -
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles -
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer -
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw -
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Lucille Ball -
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
Benjamin Franklin -
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud -
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
Oscar Wilde -
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
Samuel Johnson -
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
Diane Arbus -
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne Dyer -
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne Dyer -
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
Bruce Lee -
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill -
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill -
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Buddha -
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope -
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
Voltaire -
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster -
The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian -
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau -
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery — the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
Alan Watts -
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Winston Churchill -
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Hannah More -
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
James Madison -
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
Piet Hein -
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide -
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner -
Money is the wise man's religion.
Euripides -
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
Abraham Lincoln -
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden -
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne -
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance...
William Blake -
Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing
Dejan Stojanovic -
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
Dejan Stojanovic -
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
Euripides -
Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux -
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides -
As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.
Thomas Traherne -
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
Confucius -
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
John Locke -
Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom
Publilius Syrus -
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln -
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho