Famous Quotes

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

~ Rick Riordan

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

~ William Blake

I do not know everything, still many things I understand.

~ Madeleine L'engle

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

~ Joe Abercrombie

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

~ Black Elk

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

~ Clarence Darrow

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

~ Rick Riordan

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

~ Robin Jones Gunn

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.

~ Aeschylus

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

~ Eckhart Tolle

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF.

~ Megan Mccafferty

Many have died, you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

~ Kabir

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

~ Libba Bray

You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.

~ Hlovate

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

~ Anton Chekhov

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

~ Plato

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

~ Abraham H. Maslow

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

~ Thomas Fuller

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

~ Socrates

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, the more knowledge the more grief.

~ Anonymous

Is it so far from madness to wisdom? - Daenerys Targaryen

~ George R.r. Martin

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

~ C. Joybell C.

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

~ Victor Hugo

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

~ Winston S. Churchill

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

~ Orson Scott Card

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

~ Horace

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

~ Mario Andretti

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

~ John F. Kennedy

There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

~ J. Sterling

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

~ Petar Dunov

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

~ Edward Abbey

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

~ Hermann Hesse

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

~ Charles M. Schulz

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

~ Pittacus Lore

Cleverness is not wisdom.

~ Euripides