Wisdom Quotes

But that's how memory works, " Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

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.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF.

You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

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.

Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sayo. Gamitin ang utakpara alagaan ang sarili mo.

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

Wherever I go, I meet myself.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.

I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

The sun always shines above the clouds.

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now...

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.