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Wisdom Quotes
"A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful."
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"Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find."
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"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
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"She looked terrible, but very wise."
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"Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand."
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"Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?"
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"Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them."
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"What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly."
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"We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so."
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"Realize clarity from calamity."
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"Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures."
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"Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To reduce stress, find a job you love. To resolve conflict, be patient and peaceful. These are very, very simple in that they are complete concepts that take no more than a sentence to say. They are not, however, easy, because they must be applied consistently."
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"In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped."
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"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
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"The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent."
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
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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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"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth."
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"It is better to learn two important lessons in life than a thousand when you are about to die."
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"You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the doorstep for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don't forget! Mind your mind!"
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"Every woman thinks they are the special person that was forordained to change a man. Do you really think you are better than all the women that tried? Don't marry someone with the arrogant thought your spirituality will magically transform people. Instead, live in such a way that you don't have to change or convince anyone of your worthiness."
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