Wisdom Quotes - Page 191

No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.

Christopher Healy

I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Anne Bradstreet

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

Alexandra Bracken

Leave no stone unturned.

Euripides

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Dee Marie

For years I've been searching for a homeland, finally I found it in you..

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

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.

Anasazi Foundation

Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

Mortimer J. Adler

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

Jefferson Smith

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

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

Euripides

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

Benny Bellamacina

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Kentetsu Takamori

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

Toba Beta

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Kris Kristofferson

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

The RZA

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.

A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.

Piet Hein

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Mortimer J. Adler

he who is greedy is always in want

Horace

Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Aristotle

A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Dejan Stojanovic

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Isocrates

How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Carolyn Mackler

FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

Dejan Stojanovic

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.

Nancy B. Brewer

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Dejan Stojanovic

Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.

For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

Khaled Hosseini

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

Dejan Stojanovic

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Christopher Hitchens

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

Joe Vigil

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago.

Brandon Sanderson

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

Dejan Stojanovic

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