Famous Quotes

We understand more than we know.

~ Margaret Atwood

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

~ Jules Verne

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

~ Moira Young

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

~ Milan Kundera

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

~ John Dewey

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

~ Nalini Singh

And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.

~ J.l. Carr

Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.

~ Dan Millman

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

~ Madeleine L'engle

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

~ Oscar Wilde

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

~ Michel De Montaigne

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Chase away sorrow by living

~ Melissa Marr

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

~ J.d. Salinger

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

~ C.s. Lewis

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)

~ Confucius

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

~ Oscar Wilde

Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first.

~ Kim Gruenenfelder

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

~ Criss Jami

The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.

~ Anonymous

Veganism is not a sacrifice. It is a joy.

~ Gary L. Francione

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

~ Ray Bradbury

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

~ Jodi Picoult

You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.

~ Siobhan Vivian

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

~ Oscar Wilde

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

~ Thomas Fuller

She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past.

~ Nicholas Sparks

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

~ Sarah Dessen

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

~ Karl R. Popper

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

~ Terry Pratchett

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

~ Lao Tzu

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

~ Jack Kerouac

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

~ Jerome K. Jerome