Wisdom Quotes

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

We understand more than we know.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.

Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.

The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting.

I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

Nothing else can fill better colors in one's life like the magnificent nature does

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.