Famous Quotes

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

~ Flannery O'connor

We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.

~ Matthew Kelly

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

~ Tariq Ramadan

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

~ C.s. Lewis

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

~ Criss Jami

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

~ Harriet Evans

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

~ H. Rider Haggard

It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

~ Benjamin E. Mays

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Clarence Darrow

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

~ John Gierach

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help Reyna, but since his own strategy was to deal with his problems alone, spurning anyone who tried to get close, he couldn’t exactly criticize Reyna for doing the same thing.

~ Rick Riordan

It is easy to be wise after the event.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy,But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.

~ William Blake

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

~ Amor Towles

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

There are two kinds of fools. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.

~ John Brunner

Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.

~ Laura Munson

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

~ Karen Blixen

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend, and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.

~ Anonymous

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

~ Bret Easton Ellis

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

~ Matthew J. Kirby

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

~ Brian Tracy

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.

~ Traci Harding

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

~ Jonathan Cainer

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 NLT

~ Eddie Johnson

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

~ Roopleen

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

~ Hamza Yusuf

Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!

~ C. Joybell C.

I observe and remain silent.

~ Elizabeth I

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

~ Carole Wilkinson

Misfortunes make us wise

~ Mary Norton

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power, but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

~ George Eliot

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

~ Karl R. Popper

Wisdom can be gathered on your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television. Of course, bad information is gathered in your downtime too. Bad information that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television. One of wisdom's greatest benefits, is accurate discernment- the learned ability to immediately tell right from wrong. Good from evil. Acceptable from unacceptable. Time well spent from time wasted. The right decision from the wrong decision. And many times this is simply a matter of having the correct perspective. One way to define wisdom is THE ABILITY TO SEE, INTO THE FUTURE, THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR CHOICES IN THE PRESENT. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like... with a degree of intelligence and a hint of wisdom, most people can tell the difference between good and bad. However, it takes a truly wise person to discern the oh-so-thin line between good and best. And that line...[gives you the] perspective that allows you to see clearly the long-term consequences of your choices.

~ Andy Andrews