Wisdom Quotes

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
Linda Sunshine

Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.

A library implies an act of faith.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Dame Agatha Christie

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.”
J. C. Watts

Better is the enemy of good.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.