Wisdom Quotes

How does one say something new and not retell?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He thought others were small, that was his greatness.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

So it became,the law of universe,to have the,profoundest,of the words,cloaked in the,darkest of the masks.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never be the thing itself. And, yet, names – as words – have power, not inherently, but because we give it to them.

~ Roselynn Cannes

Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how nice a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

~ Anthony Liccione

The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you’re gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, refuse to die with you. They remain in the hearts and minds of those you touched.

~ Eric Onyango Otieno

Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

~ Zhuangzi

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

~ Nathan Filer

Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces— and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.

~ Lauren Oliver

When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

~ Abdelkader Djezairi

I write more with the words I leave out.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

~ Amit Kalantri

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it was all you had when you didn’t have anything else, that family was there, that blood was thicker than water, whatever. But when Nailer thought about it, most of these words and ideas just seemed like good excuses for people to behave badly and get away with it. Family wasn’t more reliable than marriages or friendships…maybe less…The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...

~ John Geddes

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...

~ John Geddes

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster

~ Benny Bellamacina

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

~ Lois Lowry

Only you can make yourself strong. Nobody else can do it for you.

~ Kim Pape

Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I have prayed many times that God would give me wisdom and I concur with Solomon here when he says that with much wisdom there is much grief. The more you know, the harder life is. The more pain and suffering you see, the more you come to realize that it is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men.

~ Lisa Bedrick

Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

~ Aubrey Dark

Practice brings better results than prayer.

~ Amit Kalantri