Famous Quotes

The possibility of the dream gives strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.

~ Confucius

A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

We don't notice things change. We know that things change, we've been told since childhood that things change, we've witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we're still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes--or we search for change in all the wrong places.

~ Arkady Strugatsky

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

We can't just restrict ourselves to what we know, because we are talking about the unknown.

~ Belsebuub

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.

~ Roy Bennett

Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.

~ Suzy Kassem

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

~ Oscar Wilde

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

~ Plutarch

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

~ Sigrid Undset

You were not just blessed for yourself,your were blessed to be a blessing toothers.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.

~ Marc Allen

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

~ Voltaire

I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.

~ H.m. Ward

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darknessAnd we call it wisdom. It is pain.

~ Randall Jarrell

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly, intelligence is needed to generate right action.

~ Belsebuub

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

~ Langston Hughes

Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

~ Jim Berg

We always need a motivation, in order for us to meet our full potential at work.

~ Jayson Engay

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

~ Anonymous

Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke.

~ Kelly Williams Brown

a problem well put is half solved.

~ John Dewey

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

~ Harry Truman

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

~ Leo Tolstoy

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful. Now, look you Kālāmas, do not be led by reports, or traditions, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, not by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, not by the idea: 'this is our teacher'. But, O Kālāmas, when you know for yourself that certain things are unwholesome, and wrong, and bad, then give them up... And when you know for yourself that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.

~ Gautama Buddha

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

~ Prem Rawat

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace.

~ Haim Shapira

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

~ Wallace Stevens

Wisdom comes from reflection.

~ Deborah Day

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

~ Anne Holm

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

~ Deborah Day

But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.

~ Anne Holm

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

~ Adedayo Kingjerry

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all.

~ Cormac Mccarthy