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When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.
— Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
— Maurice Switzer
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
— Mark Twain
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
— Aristotle
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
— Socrates
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
— John Lennon
Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.
— Langston Hughes
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
— Mark Twain
Never laugh at live dragons.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle, Metaphysics
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
— Albert Einstein
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
— Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
— Confucius
Angry people are not always wise.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
— Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
— Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein
Knowing others is intelligence
— knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
— Colette
The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
I'm not young enough to know everything.
— J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.
— Kahlil Gibran
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
— Bob Marley
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
— Albert Einstein
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
— Truman Capote
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
— Jimi Hendrix
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
— Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?""It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
— Bruce Lee
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
— Margaret Drabble
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
— Confucius
We learn from failure, not from success!
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
Never, never, never give in!
— Winston S. Churchill
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
— Voltaire
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
— Anne Bradstreet
All knowledge hurts.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains, Vol. 1
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
— Leo Buscaglia
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
— Socrates
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
— Stephen Hawking
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
— A.A. Milne
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
— George R.R. Martin
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
— Abraham Lincoln
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
— Michael Levine
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis Bacon, The Essays
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win
— Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
— Alan W. Watts
You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It's not your job to change these people, but it's your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they attempt to rip me, they can't. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.
— C. JoyBell C.
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— C.S. Lewis
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
— Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.
— Stephen Colbert
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. 
— Goldie Hawn
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
— Albert Einstein
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
— Kahlil Gibran
It takes a very long time to become young.
— Pablo Picasso
Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. 
— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
— Joss Whedon
Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?
— Benjamin Franklin
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
— Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
— Bob Dylan
But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. 
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
Wisely and slow
—  they stumble that run fast.
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
— William James
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door
— Milton Berle
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed.CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying.MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing.CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding... planet-cremating.MORPHEUS: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embracing., Dreamlord?MORPHEUS: I am hope.
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
Lost Time is never found again.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
— Alfred Tennyson
But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.
— John Flanagan, Erak's Ransom
You will not be punished for your anger
—  you will be punished by your anger.
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
— Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.
— Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.
— Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
— Robin Williams
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt, Strenuous Life
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
— Leonardo da Vinci
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
— Charles Dickens, Hard Times
In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.
— Octavia E. Butler
The man of wisdom is never of two minds
— the man of benevolence never worries
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
— Confucius
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands
—  you need to be able to throw some things back.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
— Theodore Roosevelt
My soul is in the sky.
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife.]
— Philip Pullman
Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
— Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
— Isaac Newton
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
— Confucius
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
These violent delights have violent ends.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
— C.G. Jung
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A man without words is a man without thought.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
— Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.
— Lao Tzu
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. 
— Kevin Brooks, Lucas
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. 
— Henry David Thoreau
If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
— Holly Black, Tithe
Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.
— Lynsay Sands, Love Bites
There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.
— Ashley Rice
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
— Galileo Galilei
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
— William Shakespeare, Richard III
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive
—  inner peace does not.
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
— Dante Alighieri
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
— Calvin Coolidge
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends
—  they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
— Euripides
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.
— Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
— حجة الإسلام أبي حامد محمد الغزالي
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
— John Russell
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
— John Milton
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
— Anton Chekhov
When in doubt, choose to live.
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
— Alexander Pope
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
— Homer
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.
— Brian Rathbone, Regent
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
— Hippolyte Taine
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.]
— Philip Pullman
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
— Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
— Tallulah Bankhead
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
— Karl Lagerfeld
When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
— Desmond Tutu
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
— Terence McKenna
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures
—  but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.
— Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
— Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
Time flows away like the water in the river. 
— Confucius
Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
— William Jordan
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
— Patrick Jones, Nailed
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
— Harry Truman
He hated when his own advice applied to himself.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
I do not know everything
—  still many things I understand.
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
— Black Elk
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
— Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life
Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
— Gautama Buddha
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
— Kahlil Gibran
I like places like this," he announced.I like old places too," Josh said, "but what's to like about a place like this?"The king spread his arms wide. "What do you see?"Josh made a face. "Junk. Rusted tractor, broken plow, old bike."Ahh...but I see a tractor that was once used to till these fields. I see the plow it once pulled. I see a bicycle carefully placed out of harm's way under a table."Josh slowly turned again, looking at the items once more.And i see these things and I wonder at the life of the person who carefully stored the precious tractor and plow in the barn out of the weather, and placed their bike under a homemade table."Why do you wonder?" Josh asked. "Why is it even important?"Because someone has to remember," Gilgamesh snapped, suddenly irritated. "Some one has to remember the human who rode the bike and drove the tractor, the person who tilled the fields, who was born and lived and died, who loved and laughed and cried, the person who shivered in the cold and sweated in the sun." He walked around the barn again, touching each item, until his palm were red with rust." It is only when no one remembers, that you are truely lost. That is the true death.
— Michael Scott, The Sorceress
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
— Robin Jones Gunn, Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La!
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.
— Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF.
— Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings
Many have died
—  you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.
— Hlovate, Versus
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.
— Anton Chekhov
Time ripens all things
—  no man is born wise.
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
— Plato, Apology
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
— Abraham H. Maslow
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
— Thomas Fuller
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
— Socrates
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow
—  the more knowledge the more grief.
Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.
— C. JoyBell C.
...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
— Winston S. Churchill
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise
—  seek what they sought.
To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
— Horace
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
— Mario Andretti
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
— John F. Kennedy
There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.
— J. Sterling, The Perfect Game
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
— Petar Dunov
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything
—  it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
— Edward Abbey
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!
— Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Treasury
He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
Cleverness is not wisdom.
— Euripides, The Bacchae
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
— Isaac Asimov
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
— Zhuangzi
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
— Robert A. Heinlein
youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
— Aristotle
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
— Frank Herbert
If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.
— Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
Adventure is not outside man
—  it is within.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
— Gertrude Stein
Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sayo. Gamitin ang utakpara alagaan ang sarili mo.
— Bob Ong
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
— Dejan Stojanovic
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
— Voltaire
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. 
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
A path is made by walking on it.
— Zhuangzi
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
— Abraham Lincoln
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
— Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
— Robert A. Heinlein
May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you... 
— Robert Fanney
Being alive is sign of strength!
— Hiro Mashima, フェアリーテイル 31 講談社キャラクターズA [Fearī Teiru 31 Special Edition DVD Bundle]
Wherever I go, I meet myself.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.
— Kevin Brooks, Lucas
Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org
— Allan Rufus
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
— Elbert Hubbard
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.
— Philip Pullman
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.
— Dejan Stojanovic
What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right
—  no one can be always right.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
— David Norris
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
— Chief Joseph
Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.
— Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.
— Paul F. Davis
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
— Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
— Leonardo da Vinci
I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
— Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
— Erasmus
What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time.Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse.This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again. 
— Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
— Lao Tzu
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
— H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
— Bertrand Russell
God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.
— Merritt Y. Hughes, Ten Perspectives on Milton
We understand more than we know.
— Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
— Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
— Confucius
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
— Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.
— Moira Young, Blood Red Road
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
— John Dewey
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. 
— J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
— William Saroyan
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
— Michel de Montaigne
The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
— Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.
— Johnny Depp
Chase away sorrow by living
— Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy