Quotes by Writers - Page 177

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.
Niccolò Machiavelli
If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car
Judy Gold
Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir.
Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.
Josef Škvorecký
It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.
Jean-Yves Leloup
But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.
Romain Rolland
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
Samuel Johnson
Quand on parle des vices d’un homme, si on vous dit : “Tout le monde le dit” ne le croyez pas ; si l’on parle de ses vertus en vous disant encore : “Tout le monde le dit”, croyez-le.
Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.
Baltasar Gracián
I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world......I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom......and I've decided you're a pillock.]
Roger Kettle
The night is still waiting.
Dejan Stojanovic
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
Dejan Stojanovic
Don't be cool. Like everything.
Shaky Kane
We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.
Dejan Stojanovic
Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.
Noah Benshea
Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.
Wu Cheng'en
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
Dejan Stojanovic
He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.
Dejan Stojanovic
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Dejan Stojanovic
The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers."Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor.""Well, naturally!" replied the maid. "In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all.""That's a mean way to live," said Germain; "I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours!
George Sand
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
Dejan Stojanovic
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
Dejan Stojanovic
Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.
Dejan Stojanovic
The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)
Jean-Yves Leloup
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
Dejan Stojanovic
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.
George Burns
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Börne
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
Dejan Stojanovic
Good morning," said the little prince.Good morning," said the merchant.This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink.Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince.Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week."And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?"Anything you like..."As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Be first the master of yourself
Baltasar Gracián
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.
George Saunders
To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.
Dejan Stojanovic
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracián
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.
A.S. Byatt
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
Dejan Stojanovic
The most complicated skill is to be simple.
Dejan Stojanovic
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Alan W. Watts
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
Dejan Stojanovic
Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.
Dejan Stojanovic
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.
Dejan Stojanovic
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
Dejan Stojanovic
Wherever I go, I meet myself.
Dejan Stojanovic
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
Dejan Stojanovic
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
Dejan Stojanovic
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.
Libba Bray
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.
Libba Bray
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door
Milton Berle
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan W. Watts
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?""It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....
Antoine De Saint Exupery
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire