Wisdom Quotes

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

~ Suzy Kassem

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

~ Anthony Horowitz

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans, it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.

~ Gary L. Francione

Old words are reborn with new faces.

~ Criss Jami

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

~ William Shakespeare

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

~ Amit Ray

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

~ Garth Stein

Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

~ Andy Andrews

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

~ Askhari Johnson Hodari

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. The seagull may intend to fly away, may decide to do so, may talk with the other seagulls about how wonderful it is to fly, but until the seagull flaps his wings and takes to the air, he is still on the dock. There’s no difference between that gull and all the others. Likewise, there is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by our intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

~ Andy Andrews

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost, someone will take the ones you miss.

~ Andy Rooney

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

~ William Shakespeare

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

~ Charles Dickens

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

~ Kay Redfield Jamison

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

~ Christopher Paolini

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

~ Brian Tracy

This is what we are like. Collectively as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost 100 years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

~ Marcia Angell

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

~ A.s. Byatt

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

~ Amit Ray

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

~ Amit Ray

We're on the same boat but in different cabin

~ Hlovate

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.

~ Joseph Bruchac

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

~ Jim Butcher

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

~ Mikhail Naimy

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

~ Elise Broach

All our wisdom is stored in the trees.

~ Santosh Kalwar

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

~ Andy Andrews

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

~ Theodore Roethke

Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.

~ P.c. Cast

Suffering teaches joy.

~ Sonia Rumzi