Wisdom Quotes

Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.

~ Linda Bender

Fall in love with life. We are here on earth for a while.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!

~ Anamika Mishra

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

~ Amitav Ghosh

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.

~ Gemma Malley

Tea carries within itself; knowledge, wisdom, and wellness; for the sake of giving.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.

~ Deyth Banger

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.

~ Michael D. O'brien

​Equality is not sameness. We all are born different – we look different and we have different circumstances. But, we all are born out of the same universe – the matter that makes our bodies comes from this magnificent universe. I have been a science student but I never heard of black matter used for black bodies, white matter for white bodies, and brown matter for brown bodies and so on.

~ Rashmit Kalra

And what if the other kids laugh at me?” Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. “I have a Cape Breton accent! They’ll know I’m from Canada and they’ll start asking me if I lived in an igloo or ate maple syrup, bacon and seal meat every day!”“You’re really overreacting,” Susan chuckled, sipping on a glass of orange juice. “Canada is a lot like the States and the only thing separating both countries is an imaginary boarder! If anyone laughs at you, tell them it doesn’t snow year-round, you got free health care while you were there and that you never rode a polar bear to school. Besides, do you know how many popular movies and TV shows from the States were filmed in Canada?”“It’s not just the Canada stuff mom,” Kerry sighed worriedly. “I’m from Dym, it’s an industrial dump!”“Yeah, and have you looked at Pittsburgh lately?” Susan asked. “Full of coal mines and steel mills, just like Sydney was when we lived there! I actually rather came to like the pollution, I don’t think I’d ever want to leave it.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Life is science.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Have you taught her to kill, Priest? Can you teach her such a thing? She's so wise in her innocence, so innocent in her wisdom.

~ Anne Bishop

No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor.

~ Seneca

Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

~ Orhan Pamuk

The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretence and admission for these things, they must have supposed his power or his wisdom imperfect, or his will changeable; and the changeableness of the will is the imperfection of the judgement.

~ Thomas Paine

If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.

~ A.e. Van Vogt

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

~ Harold Bloom

Every minute is eternity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.

~ Richard Sapir

Growing gray hair is the glory of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

~ Conn Iggulden

Age may catch up with you, just never let it over take you.

~ Benny Bellamacina

Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.

~ Ann Aguirre

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff.

~ James Pedigo

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.

~ Reyna Pryde

[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama laden.She'll also marry any infatuated suitor who promises to make her life more comfortable, no matter how inappropriate he is.

~ Rabih Alameddine

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.

~ Anne Gracie

Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

~ Plato

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

~ Linda Medley

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two—because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit.

~ Pawan Mishra

lthough the basic principles of economics are not very complicated, the very ease with which they can be learned also makes them easy to dismissed as simplistic by those who do not want to accept analyses which contradict their cherished beliefs. Evasions of the obvious are often far more complicated than the facts. Nor is it automatically true that complex effects must have complex causes. The ramifications of something very simple can become enormously complex.

~ Thomas Sowell

Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.

~ Morgan Rhodes

Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists.

~ Mark W. Boyer

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

~ Gary Patton

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.

~ Abhijit Naskar