Wisdom Quotes

Human nature is all alike.

~ Mark Twain

Free thinker walks on shortcuts among wisdoms.

~ Toba Beta

Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen, save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand.

~ Diane Adams

I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.

~ Teresa R. Funke

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfarist paradigm, which, in theory focuses on reducing suffering, and, in reality, focuses on tidying up animal exploitation at its economically inefficient edges. In science, those who subscribe to one paradigm are often unable to understand and engage those who subscribe to another paradigm precisely because the theoretical language that they use is not compatible.I think that the situation is similar in the context of the debate between animal rights and animal welfare. And that is why welfarists simply cannot understand or accept the slavery analogy.

~ Gary L. Francione

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

~ T.s. Eliot

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

~ Eric Schmidt

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

~ John Paul Ii

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

~ Thiruvalluvar

You got up off the bathroom floor. That’s a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside from winning the lottery—all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.

~ Sarah Spann

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

~ Homer

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

~ Mark Twain

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

~ Allan Lokos

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

~ Simon Van Booy

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.

~ Allan Lokos

The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified. God's wisdom makes the glory of God's grace our supreme treasure. But man's wisdom delights in seeing himself as resourceful, self-sufficient, self determining, and not utterly dependent on God's free grace.

~ John Piper

To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond?

~ Gosen Wakashū

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

~ Allan Lokos

Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

~ José Saramago

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.

~ John Holt

Silence will speakIf given an ear,Stillness is the movementOf our atmosphere,Circles have sidesWhen we draw the line,Death is sleepIn limited time.

~ Alaina Odessa

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

~ John Rosemond

CAN is the enemy of DO.

~ Alaina Odessa

Desire is the seed of potential.

~ Alaina Odessa

I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void.

~ Emil M. Cioran

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

~ Sappho

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

~ Edward Abbey

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

~ Sun Tzu

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

~ Daisy Goodwin

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

~ Théophile Gautier

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

~ Robert A.f. Thurman

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

~ Melissa Bradley

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

~ Michael Gruber

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

~ C.p. Snow

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

~ Charles Yu

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

~ Jefferson Smith

Only those who row the boat make waves

~ Christina Dodd