Wisdom Quotes

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

~ George Eliot

When did you get so clever?When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

~ John Connolly

We tend to live up to our expectations.

~ Earl Nightingale

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

~ John Witherspoon

The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.

~ Stefan Molyneux

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

~ Allan Lokos

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

~ Napoleon Hill

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

~ Bertrand Russell

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

~ Sam Keen

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

~ Dale Carnegie

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

~ Neil Gaiman

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

~ Sharon Salzberg

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

~ William Blake

The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!

~ Anonymous

Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?

~ Stephanie Perkins

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

~ Gary L. Francione

Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35

~ Anonymous

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

~ Mark Twain

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

~ Criss Jami

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

~ Sanober Khan

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.

~ Ann Herendeen

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)

~ Confucius

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

~ Kristen Ashley

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

~ Seneca

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams

~ Bashō Matsuo

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

~ Anthony De Mello

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?The same thing you do when you don't have forever. He smiled wanly. Live.

~ Amanda Hocking

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

~ Walter Lippmann

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.

~ Hsin Hsin Ming

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?

~ Margaret Maron

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

~ Gary L. Francione