Wisdom Quotes

People know what they do, frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don't know is what what they do does.

~ Michel Foucault

There are no ordinary moments.

~ Dan Millman

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents. Translation by Sharon Lebell

~ Epictetus

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

~ William James

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

~ Heraclitus

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

~ Lisa Lutz

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

~ Dale Carnegie

Things are not always what they seem, the first appearance deceives many, the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

~ Phaedrus

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

~ Heraclitus

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, Why is there so much suffering?Suzuki Roshi replied, No reason.

~ Shunryu Suzuki

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

~ Heraclitus

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

~ Heraclitus

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

~ Marilyn Manson

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

~ Benjamin Franklin

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

~ Heraclitus

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Imagine others complexly.

~ John Green

If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.

~ Benny Bellamacina

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

~ Amit Kalantri

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

~ Epictetus

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

~ Ken Kesey

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?

~ Al Munoz

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

~ Amit Kalantri

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

~ Amit Kalantri

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

~ Aberjhani

Life's managed, not cured.

~ Phillip C. Mcgraw

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

~ Socrates

We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.

~ Wil Zeus

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

~ Confucius

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

~ Plato

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

~ Criss Jami

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

~ Amit Kalantri