Wise Quotes

When did you get so clever?When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

~ John Connolly

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

~ Suzy Kassem

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

~ Suzy Kassem

For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.

~ Suzy Kassem

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.

~ Roy Bennett

We know that for mankind to move forward, changes must be made. However, if an old man is wise only by his gray hair, yet it is inevitable that this wisdom will also become impaired by age, then it can be deduced that we cannot expect the very old or very young to make progressive strides to better society, it must be up to the men and women still in the prime of their lives to re-learn and teach the changes needed to be made.

~ Suzy Kassem

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.

~ Vera Nazarian

Only wise men look for new wisdom.

~ Toba Beta

Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

~ Suzy Kassem

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown.

~ Vera Nazarian

No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.

~ Toba Beta

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wisdom comes from reflection.

~ Deborah Day

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

~ Anne Holm

But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.

~ Anne Holm

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

~ Vera Nazarian

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

~ Criss Jami

Wise men are not pacifists, they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

~ Criss Jami

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

~ Anne Holm

For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.

~ Anne Holm

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.

~ Vera Nazarian

A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.

~ Anthony Ryan

A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invitation.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.

~ A.e. Samaan

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.

~ Mohith Agadi

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do not allow a lack of one's own talent or confidence shackle the door prior to even opening it. (Ginger Susanoo, 2018).

~ Michael Rogers

I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The wise shall learn.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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