Wisdom Quotes

Leo Babauta

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Jim Butcher

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Isaac Newton

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Joseph Brodsky

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Anne Holm

Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.

Patrick Ness

Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You’d be surprised.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

The universe never complains.When you're wrong or right,She always loves and cares,She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light,Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgetsTo show you the light.

Adriana Koulias

Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In the end is this not faith; to seek the light that takes us further, the light of Christ that brings that to which reason and knowledge alone can never raise itself? This is truth!

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

Lao Zi

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.

Carl Sagan

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Karl Lagerfeld

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

C. JoyBell C.

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

Ray Bradbury

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

Maya Angelou

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Dion Boucicault

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Scott Hahn

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

Roy T. Bennett

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

George Burns

Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money is so evil, shouldn't it be, 'A wise man and his money are soon parted'? And another thing, how does a fool get money in the first place? I know some fools who have a lot of money, but they won't tell me how they got it, and I won't tell them.

craig ferguson

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Amit Kalantri

Great losses are great lessons.

Criss Jami

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.

James S.A. Corey

Once is never. Twice is always.

Archilochus

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

Toba Beta

Only wise men look for new wisdom.

Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.

Sophocles

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Prem Rawat

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

The Buddha

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O Kālāmas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.

Dewayne Owens

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.

Mark Twain

A proof once established is better left so.

Serina Hernandez

You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies.

Anuj Jasani

If you are surrounded by negative energy you will become negative energy.

Anuj Jasani

Your intelligence can help you become a thief, legend or monk, it all depends on you what you want to be.

Anuj Jasani

The story begins with your actions.

The Philosopher Hakim Orod Bozorg Khorasani

The earth, like a mirror, can be a reflection of our behaviors and actions.

The Philosopher Hakim Orod Bozorg Khorasani

The mountain is the shout of love and friendship.

The Philosopher Hakim Orod Bozorg Khorasani

The most selfish people, in the mountains, accept friendship and love with all their hearts and souls.

Epicurus

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Ann Patchett

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

Keith M. Murley

A word builds a sentence, which builds a paragraph, which builds a page, which builds a chapter, which builds a book. Build with intent.

Jay D'Cee

Immaterial wealth will always outweigh material wealth.

Jay D'Cee

If a thought or action is perceived as undesirable, you will not want to do it. It is that simple. Change your mindset; perception is king.

Jay D'Cee

While it is important to be mindful of how we spend our time as to not let it be piddled away, it is equally important to avoid the trap of over-planning.

Jay D'Cee

Attempting to cling too tightly to any one chapter of our lives poses a futile challenge toward the flow of time.

Jay D'Cee

Mistakes happen, and we should not try so fervently to avoid then.

Jay D'Cee

To declutter a stressed mind, embark on an adventure.

Aberjhani

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.