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How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.“The same way a man does."“Which is?"Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. “Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it...
— Patricia Grasso, Courting an Angel
I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.
— Patrick White, Three Uneasy Pieces
King Solomon's life reminds meof wisdom, wealth, women, woes.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
— Seneca
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
— Francis Quarles
In every bush lies a nest. 
— Kensington Roth
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
— William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
— Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.
— Gertrude Bell
Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
— John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929
In seeking wisdom thou art wise
—  in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
— Voltaire
Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.
— Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.
— Confucius, Gespräche
Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?
— Confucius, Gespräche
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
— William Shakespeare
Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.
— Sophocles
... dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos...
— Christopher Rice
The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.
— Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending. 
— Sorin Cerin
No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.
— Sorin Cerin
On se réconcilie avec un ennemi qui nous est inférieur pour les qualités du coeur ou de l'esprit 
—  on ne pardonne jamais à celui qui nous surpasse par l'âme et le génie.
Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, “What are her surroundings? What has been her life? All one’s future happiness lies in the answer.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.
— Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi
I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.Maybe it was the way you looked in the mornings when you first woke up and hadn’t showered. Maybe it was the way you were too available, because despite what everyone says, playing hard to get is still attractive.Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.
— Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.
— Criss Jami
The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
— Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn’t need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It’s amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn’t exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I’ve done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.
— Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East
Remember that we're living in a place that is temporary. No matter what you believe in the end of time I don't care about it. As of now.. live your life, cut those negative thoughts and actions, reach your dreams and goals.
— Jayson Engay
You are conditioned to believe that if you let go, if you surrender, you will either be a victim of circumstances and not assertive in your own being, or you will be viewed as being lazy, lacking in willpower, and un-motivated.Yet will and power cannot exist alongside one another. Motivation does not come into question when you surrender fully into the present moment. Motivation to do, to take action, to make moves, comes naturally from this surrender.
— Kelly    Martin, When Everyone Shines But You - Saying Goodbye To I'm Not Good Enough
People keeps on complaining, but they're not doing anything about the things that they're complaining about.
— Jayson Engay
Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.
— Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
Haste is from the Devil.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.
— DeWayne Owens
Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information, but by increasing the capacity of seeing.
— Belsebuub, Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living
There is a knowledge that is beyond the mind and the intellect, it is the wisdom of consciousness.
— Belsebuub
As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.
— Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes
I have suffered great losses and have been blessed with great consolations, but whatever life may give me or take away, this is the simple wisdom that will always light my life: I have loved, passionately, fearlessly, with all my heart and all my soul, and I have been loved in return. For me, this is enough.
— Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes
What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, Ericsson told me, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achievement. When you practice deliberately, you identify the tasks or knowledge that are just out of your reach, strive to upgrade your performance, monitor your progress, and revise accordingly. Practice sessions that fall short of this standard are not only less useful - they're counterproductive. They reinforce existing cognitive mechanisms instead of improving them.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
can't unscramble the egg no matter your wisdom and determination
— Kaleb Kilton
Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.
— Alice Clayton, Wallbanger
Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
You cannot explore the universe if you think that you are the center of it.
— Joshua Suya Pelicano
Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.
— Shannon L. Alder
The heart that gives, gathers.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.
— Chris Crutcher, King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.
— Saleem Sharma
Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I’ve exhausted every possibility.
— Confucius, The Analects
A proof once established is better left so.
— Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one else can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory. I can see that picture of what we were at an earlier stage may not be recognisable and cannot, certainly, be pleasing to contemplate in later life. But we must not repudiate it, for it is a proof that we have really lived, that it is in accordance with the laws of life and of the mind that we have, from the common elements of life, of the life of studios, of artistic groups—assuming one is a painter—extracted something that transcends them.
— Marcel Proust
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
— Craig Groeschel, The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist
If believing were simple, then this world wouldn’t be in the mess that it is today.
— M.K. Clinton, The Returns
It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
— Dan Brown, Inferno
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Wise men are not pacifists
—  they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!
— Sandra Chami Kassis
When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.
— Israelmore Ayivor
It Hurts...It Kills...It Teaches...It Thrills...“IT” Is LIFE...!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.
— Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing!Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly,& Sharing the success with all!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
When people say "If I only knew then what I know now" makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now.
— Rob Liano
When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet.
— Zarina Bibi
There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.
— E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril
A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.
— William Arnot, Studies in Proverbs: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth
Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them". HS/el
— Evinda Lepins, Back to Single
The wisdom of LIFE eludes even the best...For those who pass the test Life is a fest,While, its forever, A battle for the rest..
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose".
— Osiri Wisdom
Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE...!
— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
if the important thing is not to win but to complete then was not punctual invented.
— knight mayor
Can you believe we still around?after so many hit the ground and we ain't gon' stop now until we get that wisdom
— knight mayor
Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow!
— V. Pain
Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A Guardian is only as strong as its Muse.
— Susie M. Hanley, Muse
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
— Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible.
— Kathryn  Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden
Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.
— Trent Zelazny
... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Даже и най-скъпият часовник има само 60 минути в час
— Чудомир
Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth.
— Mollie Marti
Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.
— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching
—  a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.
— Robert M. Price
Yesterday I was clever,That is why I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise,That is why I am changing myself.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
— Marilynne Robinson
There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.
— Mollie Marti
In science, mistakes always precede the truth.
— Horace Walpole
Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.
— Mollie Marti
Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.
— Mollie Marti
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie
Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem
—  it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.
If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl
Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly.
— Kevis Hendrickson
Keep secret things secret and they will serve you the better!
— Kevis Hendrickson
Ако животните имаха разум, те също биха вършили глупости като хората.
— Чудомир
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
It is only the brave who win life’s rewards. Those who don’t overcome their fears are destined to fail at even the least things.
— Kevis Hendrickson
I consider myself a green party supporter...because green represents my favorite color other than clear. And I met a guy who was running for the green party this one time, and he seemed like he had a great head on his shoulders for a homeless guy.
— Vernon D. Burns
The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen)
— Dannye Williamsen
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
You never understand life until it grows inside of you.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
Dont brag about being perfect..imperfections are what makes you attractive..
— Sandra Chami Kassis
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
— Josh Billings
My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.
— Tyler Perry, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.
— Anne Holm, I Am David
In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).
— Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.
— Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
It makes no sense to compare yourself with others because there will always be better & worse people than you out there. Each person has his own path to make. You are where you are now. Could you reach for the stars & have everything you want? realistically no. You may not win Olympic Gold in London 2012 , or be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company etc but you most definitely have the capacity to make YOUR life as the Masterpiece it could really be. The choice is yours...
— Pablo
When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.
— Mark Nepo
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
— Ellen Goodman
In the dark , everything is scary
— Sandra Chami Kassis
Don't worry much about the after-life, Just like you don't worry about your before-Life. Worry (and be grateful) about THIS life. This one DOES count
— Pablo
It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.
— Paul A. Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Listen with your heart, listen to your inner voice of wisdom, listen to your dreams. You know what is right for you.
— Cheryl Hamada
When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.
— Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself
For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.
— Anne Holm
We shall live to die once more.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
— Carlos Castañeda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
The worship of power is an old religion.
— George Santayana
You are as much able as you know
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it.
— Annie Dillard, For the Time Being
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
— George Orwell
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres.
— Luther E. Vann, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.
— Mark Twain, Roughing It, Vol 1
What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.
— Chanctetinyea J.J. Ouellette
An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.
— T.A. Miles, Six Celestial Swords
With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.
— Michael J. Cohen, The World Peace University Field Guide to Connecting With Nature
Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.
— Immaculée Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.
— Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.
— Randolph Bourne
Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.
— Kent Allan Rees, Molly Withers and the Golden Tree
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.
— John Paul II, Love and Responsibility
Love is the divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every soul falls into them.The Sufis of all ages have been known for their beautiful personality. It does not mean that among them there have not been people with great powers, wonderful powers and wisdom. But beyond all that, what is most known of the Sufis is the human side of their nature: that tact which attuned them to wise and foolish, to poor and rich, to strong and weak -- to all. They met everyone on his own plane, they spoke to everyone in his own language. What did Jesus teach when he said to the fishermen, 'Come hither, I will make you fishers of men?' It did not mean, 'I will teach you ways by which you get the best of man.' It only meant: your tact, your sympathy will spread its arms before every soul who comes, as mother's arms are spread out for her little ones.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.
— Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
— Noël Coward
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
— J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.
— Emil M. Cioran, Oeuvres
The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain – even if only momentarily – a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.
— Don Richard Riso
Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
مخافة الرب رأس المعرفةأم 7:1
— الكتاب المقدس
Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.
— Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.
— Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships
Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to the warbling of birds and noted the grandeur and the beauties of the forest. The majestic clouds—which appear like mountains of granite floating in the air—the golden tints of a summer evening sky, and the changes of nature, possessed a mysterious significance.All of this combined to furnish ample matter for reflection to the contemplating youth.
— Francis Assikinack
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
— Yasmina Khadra
Those who want to buy wisdom remain with out wisdom, because money buys nothing except commodities.
— Meseret Geneti
The only thing set in stone are dumb quotes and names of dead people. Everything else is subject to change.
— Kimberly Spencer, Oathbound
...you have to be godly to be wise ...
— Derek Kidner
A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord believed a second brain would endow some of his lower life forms with the capacity for emotional connections. By adding the third brain, he probably planned on having his... higher forms empowered with the ability to not only think before acting, but to feel regret afterwards when their actions were wrong. But that’s not what happened, is it?
— Richard Finney, Demon Days: Angel of Light
You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.You who'd be wiseshould inquire into the nature of justice and evilfrom your teachers,seekers like yourself, and the studentswho question your answer.
— Shmuel HaNagid
A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.
— Giovanni della Casa
You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom.
— Colin Tegerdine, You Can't Google Life
...they say [Finn] has tasted the Nuts of Wisdom." Elatha laughed. "Perhaps the Nuts of Wisdom will gird him against your sister.
— Holly Bennett, Shapeshifter
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.
— Sengcan, Hsin Hsin Ming
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
— Sengcan, Hsin Hsin Ming
For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?
— Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Cieszy mię ten rym: „Polak mądr po szkodzie”;Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie,Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi,Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.
— Jan Kochanowski
In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)
— Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
— Francis Bacon
If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.
— Rahman Baba, The Poetry of Rahman Baba: Poet of the Pakhtuns
Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.
— Janaki Sooriyarachchi, Finbo
Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.
— Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope
Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.
— Ruadhán J. McElroy
Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
— Jennifer Melzer, The Goblin Market
Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
— Dan Buettner, Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
— Sarah Palin
Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.
— John A. Widtsoe, Rational Theology
Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.
— Santosh Kalwar
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless...
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice. 
— Veda Catherine Storey
Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.
— Aijaz Ahmad
Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.
— Alexander McCall Smith, La's Orchestra Saves the World
Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.
— Benjamin Franklin
Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.
— Kahlil Gibran
The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent. 
— Sorin Cerin
Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth? 
— Sorin Cerin
Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous
— Laura Fitzgerald, Veil of Roses
TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.
— Sorin Cerin
We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. 
— Sorin Cerin
To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it. 
— Sorin Cerin
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
— Sorin Cerin
This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other--link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind knowing.
— Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
Before big bridges, deep tunnels and the advent of health and safety regulations, there were many ways to cross rivers. They would use rowing boats, rickety rafts or in the absence of a vessel, swim or wade. Everyone knew what a stepping-stone was. They all understood that it was not something that you would want to stand on for any length of time. It was a means to an end, an important point and a route from A to B.
— Johnathan Cainer
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. 
— Sorin Cerin
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. 
— Sorin Cerin
She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.
— Duff Brenna, The Altar of the Body: A Novel
We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion. 
— Sorin Cerin
To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death. 
— Sorin Cerin
The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.
— Sorin Cerin
Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell
— John Sterling
We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face. 
— Sorin Cerin
Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion. 
— Sorin Cerin
Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.
— Kahlil Gibran
Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.
— Kahlil Gibran
Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.
— Mahabharata. Bhagavadgita. English.
The only way to heal is to help others heal, and the only way to find love and keep love in our lives is to give it to others.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
When your pockets are empty, go where your heart is full.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D., The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny
If you cannot find a reason to be grateful for today, be grateful for you have the sky.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Fear is not the end. But only a transition.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
The only barrier that's blocking us from living an abundant life is our unwillingness to share what we have
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
In the pursuit of dreams, we all have different beginnings. Your past is not negotiable. You must let go of the hope for a better past.
— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.