Wisdom Quotes

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

~ Allan Lokos

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.

~ Hermann Hesse

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.

~ Georges Clémenceau

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

~ Georg Baselitz

There is no dishonor in wisdom.

~ James Welch

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

~ C.s. Lewis

One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

~ Sengcan

For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

~ Sengcan

When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

~ Sengcan

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

~ Michael Ende

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

~ Anne Rice

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

~ Vera Nazarian

How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?

~ Sorin Cerin

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.

~ Santosh Kalwar

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way

~ ;Mark Twain

How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.“The same way a man does.“Which is?Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. “Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it...

~ Patricia Grasso

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

~ Patrick White

King Solomon's life reminds meof wisdom, wealth, women, woes.

~ Toba Beta

Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

~ Sorin Cerin

Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...

~ Seneca

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

~ Francis Quarles

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

~ William Zinsser

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.

~ Ina May Gaskin

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

~ Gertrude Bell

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

~ Confucius

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

~ Confucius

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort.

~ François-René De Chateaubriand

The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

On se réconcilie avec un ennemi qui nous est inférieur pour les qualités du coeur ou de l'esprit , on ne pardonne jamais à celui qui nous surpasse par l'âme et le génie.

~ François-René De Chateaubriand

Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style

~ Cindy Ann Peterson

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.

~ Marcel Proust

Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?

~ Renae A. Sauter

It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

~ Idries Shah

I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.Maybe it was the way you looked in the mornings when you first woke up and hadn’t showered. Maybe it was the way you were too available, because despite what everyone says, playing hard to get is still attractive.Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.

~ Krystal Sutherland