Famous Quotes

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

~ Mark Twain

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

~ Criss Jami

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

~ Sanober Khan

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.

~ Ann Herendeen

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)

~ Confucius

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

~ Kristen Ashley

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

~ Seneca

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Summer grasses,All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams

~ Bashō Matsuo

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

~ Anthony De Mello

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?The same thing you do when you don't have forever. He smiled wanly. Live.

~ Amanda Hocking

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

~ Walter Lippmann

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.

~ Hsin Hsin Ming

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?

~ Margaret Maron

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

~ Gary L. Francione

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

~ Chidi Okonkwo

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

~ Richard Wagner

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.

~ Washington Irving

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

~ Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his. From boyhood I have dwelt on foreign soil and I know with what grief sometimes the mind takes leave of the narrow hearth of a peasant's hut, and I know too how frankly it afterwards disdains marble firesides and panelled halls.

~ Hugh Of Saint-Victor

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got you in you may never get over it as long as you live.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

~ Paul Brunton

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

~ William Wordsworth

The main thing about ghosts – most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don’t use it,’ Nico said with a shrug, ‘you’re halfway to Asphodel already.’…He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

~ Rick Riordan

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

~ Vera Nazarian

To believe yourself brave is to be brave, it is the one only essential thing.

~ Mark Twain

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.

~ Jack Tempchin

It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in 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.

~ Andy Andrews

Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest.

~ Lincoln Patz

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest

~ Walt Whitman

Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.

~ Traci L. Slatton

Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

~ Madeleine L'engle