Wisdom Quotes

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.

~ Emil M. Cioran

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain – even if only momentarily – a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.

~ Don Richard Riso

Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.

~ Allan Lokos

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.

~ Frans G. Bengtsson

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

~ Allan Lokos

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

~ Allan Lokos

In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance.All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.

~ Francis Assikinack

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

~ Yasmina Khadra

The only thing set in stone are dumb quotes and names of dead people. Everything else is subject to change.

~ Kimberly Spencer

...you have to be godly to be wise ...

~ Derek Kidner

A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord believed a second brain would endow some of his lower life forms with the capacity for emotional connections. By adding the third brain, he probably planned on having his... higher forms empowered with the ability to not only think before acting, but to feel regret afterwards when their actions were wrong. But that’s not what happened, is it?

~ Richard Finney

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

~ Giovanni Della Casa

You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom.

~ Colin Tegerdine

...they say [Finn] has tasted the Nuts of Wisdom. Elatha laughed. Perhaps the Nuts of Wisdom will gird him against your sister.

~ Holly Bennett

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

~ Sengcan

To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

~ Sengcan

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

~ Stendhal

Cieszy mię ten rym: „Polak mądr po szkodzie”;Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi,Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.

~ Jan Kochanowski

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)

~ Swami Satchidananda

If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.

~ Rahman Baba

Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.

~ Orson Scott Card

Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

~ Jennifer Melzer

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

~ Sorin Cerin

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

~ Dan Buettner

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

~ Sarah Palin

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?

~ Sorin Cerin

It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.

~ John A. Widtsoe

Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.

~ Sorin Cerin

There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.

~ Santosh Kalwar

One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless...

~ Hermann Hesse

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

~ Aijaz Ahmad

Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous

~ Laura Fitzgerald

This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind knowing.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

Before big bridges, deep tunnels and the advent of health and safety regulations, there were many ways to cross rivers. They would use rowing boats, rickety rafts or in the absence of a vessel, swim or wade. Everyone knew what a stepping-stone was. They all understood that it was not something that you would want to stand on for any length of time. It was a means to an end, an important point and a route from A to B.

~ Johnathan Cainer