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Wisdom Quotes
"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene."
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"Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!"
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"If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses."
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"Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films."
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"Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right."
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"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."
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"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' " Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes of both were fixed on the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue-line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail."
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"Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all."
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
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"There are many secrets, don't try to resolve them all."
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"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
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"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
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"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"Each of us channel through the rest of us, which is true on every plane of being and in every field of enterprise and in all walks of life."
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"All causes shall give way: I am in bloodStepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
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"This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom."
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"Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet."
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"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."
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"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
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"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."
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"She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . ."
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"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."
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"Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools."
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