Wisdom Quotes - Page 193

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
Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.
Washington Irving
To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his. From boyhood I have dwelt on foreign soil and I know with what grief sometimes the mind takes leave of the narrow hearth of a peasant's hut, and I know too how frankly it afterwards disdains marble firesides and panelled halls.
Hugh of Saint-Victor
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.
Paul Brunton
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
William Wordsworth
The main thing about ghosts – most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don’t use it,’ Nico said with a shrug, ‘you’re halfway to Asphodel already.’…He hated when his own advice applied to himself.
Rick Riordan
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Vera Nazarian
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute
Jalaluddin Rumi
The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.
Shannon L. Alder
The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of an essential unity, among soul and body and community and world? These are all the works of God, and it is therefore the work of virtue to make or restore harmony among them. The world is certainly thought of as a place of spiritual trial, but it is also the confluence of soul and body, word and flesh, where thoughts must become deeds, where goodness must be enacted. This is the great meeting place, the narrow passage where spirit and flesh, word and world, pass into each other. The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction. It says that they cannot be divided; that their mutuality, their unity, is inescapable; that they are not reconciled in division, but in harmony. What else can be meant by the resurrection of the body? The body should be "filled with light," perfected in understanding. And so everywhere there is the sense of consequence, fear and desire, grief and joy. What is desirable is repeatedly defined in the tensions of the sense of consequence.
Wendell Berry
The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!
Anonymous
Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?
Stephanie Perkins
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.
Gary L. Francione
Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35
Anonymous
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Mark Twain
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.
Criss Jami
some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.
Sanober Khan
The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.
Elizabeth Goudge
You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.
Ann Herendeen
The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)
Confucius
Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.
Kristen Ashley
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Seneca
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
Karl Lagerfeld
Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams
Bashō Matsuo
The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.
Anthony de Mello
A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies
Kevin J. Anderson
Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?""The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.
Amanda Hocking
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.
Shannon L. Alder
What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.
John Bunyan
What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.
George Eliot
When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.
John Connolly
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Earl Nightingale
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
Stefan Molyneux
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
Allan Lokos
Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
Catherynne M. Valente
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.
Michel de Montaigne
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.
Sam Keen
there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .
Dale Carnegie
For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
Neil Gaiman
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.
Sharon Salzberg
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
Jack Kornfield
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
Hannah Hart
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
William Shakespeare
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
Plato

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