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Wisdom Quotes
"Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors."
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"Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!"
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"I know that I know nothing."
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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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"The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity."
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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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"Have the mind of a swam, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swam, and the soul of a dove."
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"Education Is An Attempt To Discover Unwritten Laws That Governs The Earth."
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"It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things."
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"It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time."
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"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
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"He has enough who is contented with little."
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"The world gives us PLENTY of opportunities to strengthen our patience. While this truth can definitely be challenging, this is a good thing. Patience is a key that unlocks the door to a more fulfilling life. It is through a cultivation of patience that we become better parents, powerful teachers, great businessmen, good friends, and a live a happier life."
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"The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all."
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"You are simply naturally inclined to make mistakes just as everyone else is, whether male or female, black or white, young or old. These mistakes are your school of learning, therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning."
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"When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity."
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"If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid."
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"A living fool is worth less than a dead hero."
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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
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"Small truths have greater power than big lies."
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"The purpose of life is to become acquainted with the deepest recesses of a person's own mind by reflecting upon what a person reads, witnesses, and personally experiences. Wisdom is a form of power. Lacking knowledge of the world and without comprehending the essence of humanity, we can never know the truth of our own being."
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"Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life."
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"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
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"The faithful Christian steward acknowledges that God owns all he has, and it is his responsibility to manage and dispose of his possessions in a way that is acceptable to the Lord."
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"It's normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy!"
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"One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors."
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"Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved."
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"God is the world's oldest philosopher, love is the world's oldest sage."
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"Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions."
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"If you will not always think about the decisions you are taking, you shall always think about the decisions you should have taken in regret, in wonder or in joy. Regrets of the past shall always remain an indelible footprint but the lessons from regrets can always be learned and be used."
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"Be sure to understand the terms of any contract, before you sign."
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"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused."
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"It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight."
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"See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out."
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"Stop wasting any more time looking outside of 'you' for what is not there. Look within and you will find the treasure you seek."
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"One of the aims of forgiveness is to turn the frozen, pent-up energy in stored-up emotions into free energy that people can express themselves with in the present."
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"If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world."
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"Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else's opinion."
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"Transcendence and transformation of consciousness will create a new reality for humanity-not our economic success."
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