Wisdom Quotes

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

~ Raheel Farooq

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)

~ Witold Gombrowicz

Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

~ Suzy Kassem

Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.

~ Toba Beta

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

~ Destiny Booze

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

~ Archilochos

Only wise men look for new wisdom.

~ Toba Beta

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

~ Amit Ray

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

~ Judy Gold

There's kind of wisdom that must be firstly rejected before accepted.

~ Toba Beta

Don't kill me because I'm gay,pray for me for it is God who created me.

~ Ocean Crisstopher Poet

Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.

~ Anasazi Foundation

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

~ Idries Shah

Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match

~ Joshua Caleb

Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

L’arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu’ils ont perdu la veille, ils s’apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté.

~ François-René De Chateaubriand

Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

~ Amit Ray

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

~ David Bentley Hart

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.

~ Ricky Maye

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

~ Idries Shah

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

~ Brandi L. Bates

The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success, success is deliberate!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

~ John Steinbeck

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

~ Idries Shah

Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.

~ Tony Vigorito

Experience is never at bargain price.

~ Alice B. Toklas

One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed?

~ Confucius

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them.

~ Confucius

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

~ Joseph Conrad

The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.

~ Napoleon Hill

Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.

~ Cambria Hebert

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

~ Phyllis Mcginley

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

~ C.s. Lewis