Wisdom Quotes

They are called, SELF-worth and SELF-esteem for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

~ Jaeda Dewalt

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.

~ Suzy Kassem

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!

~ K.m. Johnson

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

~ Dannye Williamsen

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

~ Mary Stewart

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will.

~ Rick Riordan

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

~ A.a. Milne

I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You’re alive. Live.

~ Mitch Lucker

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

~ Wallace Stegner

...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

~ Charles Yu

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

~ C. Joybell C.

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage

~ Adam Gidwitz

The more you know, the less you need.

~ Yvon Chouinard

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.

~ Amit Ray

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

~ Andrew Davidson

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

~ Flannery O'connor

We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.

~ Matthew Kelly

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

~ Tariq Ramadan

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

~ C.s. Lewis

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

~ Criss Jami

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

~ Harriet Evans

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

~ H. Rider Haggard

It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

~ Benjamin E. Mays

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Clarence Darrow

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

~ John Gierach

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn’t exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.

~ Rick Riordan

It is easy to be wise after the event.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy,But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.

~ William Blake

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

~ Amor Towles

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

There are two kinds of fools. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.

~ John Brunner

Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.

~ Laura Munson

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

~ Karen Blixen