Wise Sayings Quotes

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Eleanor Roosevelt

Smile, even when others do not.Care, even when others will not.Love, even when others could not.Give, even when others cannot.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love endures every circumstance; Love never loses hope, never loses faith and never gives up.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Advice for the wise: You"d better bite your tongueRather than cast a spell wrong.

Ana Claudia Antunes

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Failure is a teacher. It teaches what you ought to learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever you are, you have to be joyfully alive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life tests us to see our level of endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is so much better when we dwell on awe-inspired thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who find courage to pursue their dreams, manifest gladness of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

May you find strength to survive life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

Spread the light of love in the spirit of purity of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to explore, search and seek the boundless possibilities in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God.

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist.

Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business – all these fall into the same category of psychological reinforcement. Hence, emerged the blood-sucking professions of astrology, palmistry, vastushastra, numerology etc. The very existence of these fraudulent professions is predicated on the fear and anxiety of vulnerable masses. Thus, a person’s superstitious beliefs become the tool of exploitation in the hands of ruthless fraudsters.

It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.

All I want is to be at service of humanity, rather than being a teacher. I cannot teach anyone anything I can only make them think.

Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they’ll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they’ll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history.

Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.

Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

Knowledge shall set the mind free.

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

God is a consuming fire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows