Wisdom Quotes - Page 188

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Shannon L. Alder

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

David Bentley Hart

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

Brandi L. Bates

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

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

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.

Experience is never at bargain price.

Alice B. Toklas

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?

Confucius

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

Confucius

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

Anasazi Foundation

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)

Witold Gombrowicz

Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

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

Toba Beta

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

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

Only wise men look for new wisdom.

Toba Beta

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Amit Ray

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

Judy Gold

There's kind of wisdom that must be firstly rejected before accepted.

Toba Beta

Don't kill me because I'm gay,pray for me for it is God who created me.

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.

Anasazi Foundation

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.

You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey're within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask

When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view.

Toba Beta

The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!

Charles Alexander Eastman

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

Anonymous

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

Josef Škvorecký

Let your wisdom guide youOn your own personal journey By listening to your heartYour soul will be alight And let you beAll that you are intended to be

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

For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted from their minds. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

R. Scott Bakker

Here’s a little mote of wisdom: Not everyone who claims to be an expert, is indeed an expert. Please note: I have never claimed to be an expert on anything except perhaps making the perfect omelet, and if you don’t like spicy, you’d probably argue with me on that one, too. In fact, anyone claiming to be an expert on anything, in my opinion, should immediately be viewed with suspicion, or be able to produce a PhD Diploma on the subject he or she is professing to be expert in.

Chris A. Jackson

Ego is recessive in wisdom.

Toba Beta

If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. (“The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah”)

William Beckford

A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.

Understand that nothing happensunless it is God's will anddo what you like.What can be simpler than that?

Ramesh S. Balsekar

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

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

MOMWholeheartedly,She loved me-And inspired me-With transcending devotion.It was a blessing-To have been her son,To have been loved-Without conditions.Her words of wisdom-Opened my eyes-To the world-And to myself.By seeing the best in me, She empowered me.By believing in me, She transformed me.She grew old-And floated away,But her love remains standing-Eternally by my side.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

all appears to change when we change

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.

Carole Wilkinson

Physical strength doesn't mean a damn thing when you're all cut up and bleeding inside.

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