Wisdom Quotes

When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

~ Dorothy Koomson

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I have learned that many of us simply “See”, .........we hardly “Observe

~ Monish Bhalla

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

~ Debasish Mridha

...God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head...

~ John Geddes

This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears.

~ Anthony Liccione

Let us all choose to become citizens of humanity rather than citizens of hate, perhaps collectively we can achieve the salvation of the human race from its own evil….

~ Husam Wafaei

An accountability mind has learned to be agile, wise, courageous, resilient, and high-mature.

~ Pearl Zhu

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from your mindset.

~ Debasish Mridha

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

~ Brandi L. Bates

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

~ Debasish Mridha

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

~ V.c. Andrews

If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.

~ Gisela Hausmann

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

~ Paul Arden

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

~ Aristotle

Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Time for me is now double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last relapse but closer to the next recurrence - and, eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

~ Paul Kalanithi

Tragedy has a cruel way of ripping off the masks of self-sufficiency and self-satisfaction. It yells in the streets, No! Everything is not A-okay! It cracks apart our airtight theologies about God having everything under control. It forces us to get real and really struggle with the big questions of life. It cautions us that this life journey we are on is not easily comprehended with a few sermon points but demands a lifetime of wisdom to even begin to fathom.

~ David Brazzeal

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

~ Debasish Mridha

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

~ Samuel Beckett

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

~ Tad Williams

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

~ Idries Shah

Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

~ Garry Douglas Kilworth

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

~ Phillip Lopate

By believing in an imaginary invisible supernatural entity, humans may become good citizens. But this is not religion. This is merely an illusion of religion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

We cannot understand the Higher Wisdom. Later, well after the event, we may see the lesson contained in the event, and be truly grateful. We must, however, submit to what happens, accepting all that unfolds gracefully. This is the key. All your tragedies in life and in the theatre come about because of non-acceptance of the will of the Gods. Not my petty little ant-like will, but the Gods omnipotent will, let that will be done, I say. This is the beginning and end of the virtuous life.

~ Alan Jacobs

hope is just a feeling...will is the real thing....

~ Parag Tipnis

Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one's experiences, or rather one's thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process?

~ Christopher Earle

Wisdom is the fruits of reflection...

~ Gino Norris

I miss those times when I hadn't a clue.

~ Marina Leigh Hatfield

Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very thing for which we pulled on heaven. You know why? In those moments we see the magnanimity of GOD's unfailing mercy to undeserving men like us.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

... the Wisdom of God ... rules all things, because it is infinitely more powerful and more loving and, above all, more merciful than ours.

~ Father Jacques Philippe

And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing.

~ C.s. Lewis

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

~ Debasish Mridha

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.

~ Michael Oehley