Wisdom Quotes - Page 194

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(August 9, 1955)

Flannery O'Connor

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Otto von Bismarck

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.

Bill W.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important mental tool a person can possess?"It was a serious question, and Eragon considered it for a reasonable span before he ventured to say, "Determination."Oromis tore the loaf in half with his long white fingers. "I can understand why you arrived at that conclusion-determination has served you well in your adventures-but no. I meant the tool most necessary to choose the best course of action in any given situation. Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects. So, no, determination cannot be what we're looking for.

Christopher Paolini

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

Alexei Maxim Russell

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

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Craig Ferguson

All pain is the same.

Oprah Winfrey

For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

C.S. Lewis

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Aristophanes

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

Joseph Conrad

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

Shannon L. Alder

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

Shannon L. Alder

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Guru Nanak

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!

Friedrich Nietzsche

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

Leo Tolstoy

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

Matthew Kelly

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

Dejan Stojanovic

[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such women in power. The knowledge of a baroness must be so comprehensive that she can understand everything. Of her a philosopher might have said: "No one is wise who does not know some part of everything." Moreover, she must have the courage of a man. This means that she should not be brought up overmuch among women nor should she be indulged in extensive and feminine pampering. Why do I say that? If barons wish to be honoured as they deserve, they spend very little time in their manors and on their own lands. Going to war, attending their prince's court, and traveling are the three primary duties of such a lord. So the lady, his companion, must represent him at home during his absences. Although her husband is served by bailiffs, provosts, rent collectors, and land governors, she must govern them all. To do this according to her right she must conduct herself with such wisdom that she will be both feared and loved. As we have said before, the best possible fear comes from love. When wronged, her men must be able to turn to her for refuge. She must be so skilled and flexible that in each case she can respond suitably. Therefore, she must be knowledgeable in the mores of her locality and instructed in its usages, rights, and customs. She must be a good speaker, proud when pride is needed; circumspect with the scornful, surly, or rebellious; and charitably gentle and humble toward her good, obedient subjects. With the counsellors of her lord and with the advice of elder wise men, she ought to work directly with her people. No one should ever be able to say of her that she acts merely to have her own way. Again, she should have a man's heart. She must know the laws of arms and all things pertaining to warfare, ever prepared to command her men if there is need of it. She has to know both assault and defence tactics to insure that her fortresses are well defended, if she has any expectation of attack or believes she must initiate military action. Testing her men, she will discover their qualities of courage and determination before overly trusting them. She must know the number and strength of her men to gauge accurately her resources, so that she never will have to trust vain or feeble promises. Calculating what force she is capable of providing before her lord arrives with reinforcements, she also must know the financial resources she could call upon to sustain military action. She should avoid oppressing her men, since this is the surest way to incur their hatred. She can best cultivate their loyalty by speaking boldly and consistently to them, according to her council, not giving one reason today and another tomorrow. Speaking words of good courage to her men-at-arms as well as to her other retainers, she will urge them to loyalty and their best efforts.

Christine de Pizan

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Benjamin Disraeli

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

CrimethInc.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.

Michael Anderson

Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.

C. JoyBell C.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Anthony de Mello

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Zhuangzi

Wordsare powerfulforces of nature.they are destruction.they are nourishment. they are flesh. they are water.they are flowers and bone.they burn. they cleansethey erase. they etch. they can eitherleave youfeelinghomelessor brimmingwith home.

Sanober Khan

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

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

W Somerset Maugham

Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

Andy Andrews

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Michel de Montaigne

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.

Jaeda DeWalt

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!

Sarah Ferguson

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Paul Brunton

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Aesop

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

David Zindell

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Joan Borysenko

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

George Jones

....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.

Thomas Merton

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

Graham Greene

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Hamza Yusuf

Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!

C. JoyBell C.

I observe and remain silent.

Elizabeth I

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

Edith Wharton

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

Carole Wilkinson

Misfortunes make us wise

Mary Norton

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Karl R. Popper

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