Wisdom Quotes

La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.

~ Carmen Martín Gaite

Be first the master of yourself

~ Baltasar Gracián

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

~ Jonathan Tropper

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

~ Elizabeth I

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers.And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

~ Osho

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

~ Kent Haruf

There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.

~ J.d. Stroube

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

~ Ellen Goodman

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together, it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman... whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them.

~ Betty Smith

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

~ Lao Tzu

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

~ Christine De Pizan

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

~ Isaac Asimov

See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore ‘small stuff,’ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- ‘small stuff’.

~ Andy Andrews

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

~ George Saunders

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There's a thin line between genius and bottom-barrel stupidness. I hover delicately on a tightrope between the two, wondering where I'll land if I'll ever fall.

~ Suzanne Crowley

You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

~ Alison Croggon

While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

~ Andy Andrews

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

~ Amit Ray

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

~ Mario Benedetti

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

~ Brian Tracy

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

~ John Stuart Mill

Develop the winning edge, small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

~ Brian Tracy

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

~ Nelson Algren

Brave? Or stupid?Roger shrugged. I've never been quite sure where brave stopped and stupid began, myself.

~ Gerald Morris

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

~ Denis Healey

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

~ William Blake

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

~ Christopher Moore

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

~ Charles Kingsley

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

~ Thomas Paine

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

~ Christopher Paolini

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

~ Victor Hugo

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

~ Ana Monnar

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

~ Helen Rowland

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.

~ Madame De Sablé