Wisdom Quotes

All knowledge hurts.

The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze...

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love wha...

we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burni...

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

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

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt...

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an ...

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one...

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!...

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w...

I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the wor...

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be ha...

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou...

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are aliv...

Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You...

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

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

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breas...

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will...

You have to choose your future regrets.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most u...

One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach ...

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essentia...

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open bo...

They were quiet for a while, eating, then Oromis asked, "Can you tell me, What is the most important...

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will se...

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindl...

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in ...

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

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

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to ...

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom...

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism a...

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the ...

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

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, ...

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht w...

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bi...

he who will not economize will have to agonize

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second...

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things...

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among th...

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utt...

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The goo...

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail...

You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by whic...

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-tel...

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm n...

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't th...

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty...

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when on...

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas maybe we do so because those ideas are...

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.

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

There are no ordinary moments.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ...

Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but ...

What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of th...

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers...

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Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise