Wisdom Quotes

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

~ Kevin Brooks

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

~ Allan Rufus

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

~ Brandon Sanderson

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

~ Amit Ray

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right.

~ Roy T. Bennett

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

~ David Norris

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

~ Chief Joseph

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

~ Michael Crichton

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

~ Paul F. Davis

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

~ Louise Penny

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

~ Erasmus

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

~ Inga Muscio

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

~ H.l. Mencken

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

~ Bertrand Russell

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

~ Merritt Y. Hughes

We understand more than we know.

~ Margaret Atwood

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

~ Jules Verne

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

~ Moira Young

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

~ Milan Kundera

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

~ John Dewey

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

~ Nalini Singh

And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.

~ J.l. Carr

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

~ Dan Millman

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

~ Madeleine L'engle

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

~ Oscar Wilde

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

~ Michel De Montaigne

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Chase away sorrow by living

~ Melissa Marr

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

~ J.d. Salinger

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

~ C.s. Lewis

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)

~ Confucius