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Wisdom Quotes
"Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence."
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"The light within us can always identify our mind's darkness."
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"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
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"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
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"Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go."
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"He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about."
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."
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"As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express."
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"Looking for positives is always wise in any situation that you may encounter."
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"Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them."
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"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
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"You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to put you right and guide you away from some groundless opinion."
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"Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere."
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
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"It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it."
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."
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"One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent."
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
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"I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly."
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"Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him."
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"Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?"
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"Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right."
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"Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else."
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"I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
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"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
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"There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer."
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"A data bank holding all the information that is in this universe can be found in God."
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"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
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"In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness."
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"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."
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"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
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"Conflict is just another chance for agreement."
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"Our soul is that part of our being which possesses intelligence, conscience, and memory-the real personality. Your body will die, but your soul lives on. And that soul has a “sixth sense”-the ability to believe, to have faith."
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"Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them."
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"Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you consider that that person is only a crying off from being held accountable, and that you have got that person's number, and it's Number One. Now, I am not a poetical man myself, except in a vocal way, when it goes round a company, but I'm a practical one, and that's my experience. So's this rule. Fast and loose in one thing, Fast and loose in everything. I never knew it fail. No more will you. Nor no one."
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"Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end."
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