Famous Quotes

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

~ Isaac Asimov

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

~ Aristotle

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

~ Frank Herbert

If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Adventure is not outside man, it is within.

~ George Eliot

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

~ Gertrude Stein

Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sayo. Gamitin ang utakpara alagaan ang sarili mo.

~ Bob Ong

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

~ Voltaire

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Being alive is sign of strength!

~ Hiro Mashima

Wherever I go, I meet myself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

~ Jasper Fforde

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

~ Claudia Gray

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

~ Kevin Brooks

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

~ Allan Rufus

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

~ Brandon Sanderson

There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

~ Amit Ray

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right.

~ Roy T. Bennett

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.

~ David Norris

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

~ Chief Joseph

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

~ Michael Crichton

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

~ Paul F. Davis

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

~ Louise Penny

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

~ Erasmus

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

~ Inga Muscio

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

~ H.l. Mencken

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

~ Bertrand Russell

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

~ Merritt Y. Hughes