Wisdom Quotes - Page 202

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Scott Westerfeld

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

Octavia E. Butler

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

Confucius

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Christopher Paolini

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.

Stephen Colbert

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Bob Dylan

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Stephen Hawking

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

George R.R. Martin

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It's not your job to change these people, but it's your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they attempt to rip me, they can't. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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