Wisdom Quotes

That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.

~ L.j. Smith

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

~ Shimon Peres

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

~ Scott Hahn

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

~ Christopher Hitchens

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

~ Criss Jami

Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

~ Peggy Vincent

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

~ Christine De Pizan

And someone, somewhere, was having an even worse time of it than me. I tried to keep that in mind. No matter how crappy your life, someone will probably beat you in the my-life-is-crap category. Not that I don't let myself whine a little now and then, but sometimes it's good to keep your misery in perspective

~ Lish Mcbride

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

~ John Paul Ii

‎They are angry with me, because I know what I am. Said the little eagle. How do you know that they are angry with you? Because, they despise me for wanting to soar, they only want me to peck at the dirt, looking for ants, with them. But I can't do that. I don't have chicken feet, I have eagle wings. And what is so wrong with having eagle wings and no chicken feet? Asked the old owl. I'm not sure, that's what I'm trying to find out. They hate you because you know that you are an eagle and they want you to think you are a chicken so that you will peck at the ground looking for ants and worms, so that you will never know that you are an eagle and always think yourself a chicken. Let them hate you, they will always be chickens, and you will always be an eagle. You must fly. You must soar. Said the old owl.

~ C. Joybell C.

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

~ Khaled Hosseini

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

~ Suzy Kassem

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Cheap booze is a false economy.

~ Christopher Hitchens

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

~ Joe Vigil

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.Eternity ended ten years ago.

~ Brandon Sanderson

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

We all have scars, Mia; they are supposed to make you stronger, not paralyze you.” ~Cole

~ Tina Carreiro

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

~ Kathleen Norris

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

~ Washington Irving

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

~ Haruo Shirane

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.

~ Nalini Singh

Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.

~ Hailey Edwards

We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.

~ Jayce O'neal

That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.

~ Emma Campion

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The intelligent have plans, the wise have principles.

~ Raheel Farooq

Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

~ Omar Khayyám

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

~ Aristotle

A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

~ Marva J. Dawn

Color is the overpowering of black, white – the final victory over black.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

~ Isocrates

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful, the best occupations are the least forced.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

~ Carolyn Mackler

FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

~ Suzy Kassem

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.

~ Dejan Stojanovic