Wisdom Quotes - Page 197

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

All our wisdom is stored in the trees.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Dejan Stojanovic

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Leonardo da Vinci

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

Albert Einstein

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

William Shakespeare

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

Amit Ray

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Honoré de Balzac

Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

Askhari Johnson Hodari

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. The seagull may intend to fly away, may decide to do so, may talk with the other seagulls about how wonderful it is to fly, but until the seagull flaps his wings and takes to the air, he is still on the dock. There’s no difference between that gull and all the others. Likewise, there is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Charles Dickens

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Baltasar Gracián

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Kay Redfield Jamison

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

Aesop

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Christopher Paolini

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

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.

The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.

Amit Ray

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

Roopleen

Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest desire.' But as long as you are waiting for that mysterious moment you will go on running helter-skelter, always anxious and restless, always lustful and angry, never fully satisfied. You know that this is the compulsiveness that keeps us going and busy, but at the same time makes us wonder whether we are getting anywhere in the long run. This is the way to spiritual exhaustion and burn-out. This is the way to spiritual death.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

The sun always shines above the clouds.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

M.M. Kaye

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Shannon L. Alder

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Glen Cook

Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now...

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

Ursula K Le Guin

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Søren Kierkegaard

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Anthony Horowitz

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

Amit Ray

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Orison Swett Marden

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

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