Wisdom Quotes

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instru...

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are the...

When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only...

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we...

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they ...

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronge...

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is strong...

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and f...

When I was eighteen or twenty, I knew everything except what I wanted. I knew all about people, and ...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambig...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

If you read the novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none...

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Ideas are the source of all things

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really ...

Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposin...

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable ...

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my ex...

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of p...

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

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

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

Beirut is the Elizabeth Taylor of cities: insane, beautiful, falling apart, aging, and forever drama...

The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the wate...

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmou...

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and sc...

The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more...

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is ...

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest numb...

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, an...

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, c...

I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthles...

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its i...

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdo...

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

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

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, ...

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most ...

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I c...

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the ...

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well,...

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it...

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a bett...

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

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed hi...

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed hi...

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a t...

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who ...

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because the...

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good....

Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan y...

Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and ...

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistak...

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important par...

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most impo...

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to c...

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame,...

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotte...

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory-...

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is...

You have perhaps heard some false reportsOn the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fabl...

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of compariso...

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysteriou...

Live. For Now. For the time being.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...

I felt so stupid and young, and at the same time something was cracking open inside me, or maybe it ...

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leave...

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.