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Wisdom Quotes
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
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"Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake."
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"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern fA1?4hrt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."
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"Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.Discipline your mind to think positively to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event."
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"Never make a judgment on a one sided story because people may tell you what they want you to hear, rather than what you need to hear."
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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
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"We have to do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."
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"Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others."
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"Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors."
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"Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem."
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"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
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"The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity."
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"Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,- For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble."
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"The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them."
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"If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they'd never blossom."
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"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."
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"He has enough who is contented with little."
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"Experience is a question of instinct about life."
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"Don't conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!"
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"Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not the soul."
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"It is the roof that fights the rain, but the builder who gets all the glory."
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"A complicated idea is a confused idea."
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"People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times."
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"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
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"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
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"We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics' justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person's lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses."
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"We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic."
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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
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"Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it . . .believers are to test the various spirits and doctrines that abound.Most of all we are to test them against thestandard of the Word of God."
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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."
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"An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems."
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"You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy. Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which you were wont to share at Bath, the very idea of which without her is abhorrent. You would not, for instance, now go to a ball for the world. You feel that you have no longer any friend to whom you can speak with unreserve; on whose regard you can place dependence; or whose counsel, in any difficult, you could rely on."
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