Wisdom Quotes - Page 201

When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

Dr. Seuss

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Terence McKenna

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Confucius

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

William Shakespeare

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Dante Alighieri

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Euripides

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.

Kristin Cashore

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

Catherynne M. Valente

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

When in doubt, choose to live.

Terry Pratchett

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Homer

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

L.M. Montgomery

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Theodore Roosevelt

My soul is in the sky.

William Shakespeare

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.]

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

William Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends.

William Shakespeare

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

C.G. Jung

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Rabindranath Tagore

A man without words is a man without thought.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Sarah Addison Allen

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.

Lao Tzu

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

Madeleine L'Engle

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

Henry David Thoreau

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel García Márquez

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed.CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying.MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing.CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding... planet-cremating.MORPHEUS: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embracing., Dreamlord?MORPHEUS: I am hope.

Lost Time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

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