Wisdom Quotes

You are nothing less than a miracle!

~ Bryant Mcgill

Don't spread negativity, that stuff is contagious and ruins us. The good news is, positivity can also be contagious and it lifts us.

~ Joshua Neik

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Old Ways May Not Give You UpAn elderly man in a Lobi village once renounced the spirits in favor of Islam by discarding the very beliefs in spirits and mystical inanimate objects that have held our societies together for more three centuries. He threw his fetishes in a nearby lake. Sadly he turned and walked away from the lake and the traditions. As the elder walked away, the fetishes leaped out of the lake onto his back again to reclaim him.“Sometimes the old ways will not give you up”…Chief–Lobi Tribe

~ James M. Robinson

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If your situtation is the fault of anything or anyone else...there is very little hope and absolutely zero power over your own life.Responsibility is about hope and control. And...who doesn't want hope for a greater future that their choices control? ...Most folks look for their car keys with more energy than they search for the wisdom that can change their lives.

~ Andy Andrews

The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is I Am proud of you.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Get this through your head — you are not responsible for other people's happiness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There are some debts that can't be paid with money.

~ Steven J. Carroll

It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

~ Jeffrey Fry

I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes.

~ Neil Gaiman

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....

~ Richard Russo

A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.

~ Donald Kingsbury

You can’t always have the full picture to everything in life, you'll only learn as you make more mistakes.

~ Auliq Ice

Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean your mistakes get to make you. Take notice of your inner critic, forgive yourself, and move on.

~ Robert Tew

You are so much more than your mistakes.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes

~ Bayan Bahi

I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.

~ A Gentlemen

StagesFirst I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong.What was wrong was to remain in either of the first two stages. What was right was to convey this to everyone.(Ardabili)

~ Idries Shah

Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master?

~ Saurabh Sharma

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.

~ Anne Brontë

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older.

~ Richard Russo

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

~ Elizabeth Kelly

It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windListened for what was never spoken.Though half a score of years are gone,Spring comes as sharply now as then—But if we had it all to doIt would be done the same again.It was a spring that never came;But we have lived enough to knowThat what we never have, remains;It is the things we have that go.

~ Sara Teasdale

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

~ C.s. Lewis

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

~ Debasish Mridha

You can’t help who you are, but you can change who you want to be.

~ Benny Bellamacina

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes, the best of princes is a visitor of sages.

~ Idries Shah

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

~ Idries Shah

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

~ Idries Shah

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

~ Idries Shah

Q: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi.

~ Idries Shah

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

~ Idries Shah

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

~ Idries Shah

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.

~ Idries Shah

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

~ Idries Shah

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

~ Idries Shah

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

~ Idries Shah

Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.

~ Idries Shah