Wisdom Quotes
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.
If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad
Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.
Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.
Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.
The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.
I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.
What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.