Famous Quotes

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.

~ Stephen Colbert

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

~ Goldie Hawn

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

~ Albert Einstein

It takes a very long time to become young.

~ Pablo Picasso

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

~ Cornelia Funke

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

~ Joss Whedon

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

~ Benjamin Franklin

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

~ Baltasar Gracián

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

~ Bob Dylan

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

~ Rick Riordan

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

~ Gautama Buddha

Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.

~ William Shakespeare

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

~ Milton Berle

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Lost Time is never found again.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

~ Alfred Tennyson

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

~ John Flanagan

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

~ Shannon Hale

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

~ Sara Teasdale

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

~ Scott Westerfeld

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

~ Robin Williams

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

~ Libba Bray

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

~ Charles Dickens

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

~ Octavia E. Butler

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

~ Confucius

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

~ Theodore Roosevelt

My soul is in the sky.

~ William Shakespeare

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.]

~ Philip Pullman

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

~ Daniel Keyes

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

~ Isaac Newton

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

~ William Shakespeare