Wisdom Quotes - Page 199

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

Anonymous

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Gary L. Francione

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.

Nicholas Sparks

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Terry Pratchett

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Bertrand Russell

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

Merritt Y. Hughes

We understand more than we know.

Margaret Atwood

Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

Confucius

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

Dejan Stojanovic

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.

J.L. Carr

Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Madeleine L'Engle

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

William Saroyan

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

Ernesto Che Guevara

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

Marshall McLuhan

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dejan Stojanovic

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Brandon Sanderson

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

Amit Ray

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

Brandon Sanderson

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

Dejan Stojanovic

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Michael Crichton

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Leonardo da Vinci

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Erasmus

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

Lao Tzu

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

Anthon St. Maarten

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sayo. Gamitin ang utakpara alagaan ang sarili mo.

Bob Ong

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Dejan Stojanovic

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Voltaire

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

A path is made by walking on it.

Zhuangzi

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