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That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path.
— Emma Campion, The King's Mistress
The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers."Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor.""Well, naturally!" replied the maid. "In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all.""That's a mean way to live," said Germain; "I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours!
— George Sand, La mare au diable
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
— Henry David Thoreau
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
he who is greedy is always in want
— Horace
The intelligent have plans
—  the wise have principles.
Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
— Omar Khayyám
we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
— William James
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.
— Marva J. Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
Color is the overpowering of black
—  white – the final victory over black.
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
— Isocrates
How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.
— ابن قيم الجوزية
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
— David Starr Jordan
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful
—  the best occupations are the least forced.
The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
— Carolyn Mackler, Vegan, Virgin, Valentine
FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
— Aeschylus
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.
— Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration
For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.
— Roy  Bennett
I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.
— Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.
— Wu Cheng'en, Monkey: A Journey to the West
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
— J.I. Packer
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.
— Lama Surya Das
Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.
— Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
— Euripides
Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.
— Amanda Hocking, Wisdom
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
— Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme
Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.
— Kentetsu Takamori, Unlocking Tannisho: Shinran's Words on the Pure Land Path
Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.
— Noah Benshea, Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
— Dorothy Parker, Constant Reader
Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
— Kris Kristofferson
Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children
— The RZA
Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.
— Santosh Kalwar
A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there.
— Piet Hein, Grooks 1
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
— Bill Moyers
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
You have to be ill if you want to get better.
— Colin Firth, Speaking With the Angel
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have
— Joyce Meyer
To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
— Roopleen
...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters.
— Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle
I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.
— Nikki Rowe
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
— Anne Bradstreet
When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
Time is the wisest of all things that are
—  for it brings everything to light.
Leave no stone unturned.
— Euripides
Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.
— Amanda Hocking, Wisdom
Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue
— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos, Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
— Roy  Bennett
Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.
— Dee Marie, Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy
For years I've been searching for a homeland, finally I found it in you..
— Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.-Kikyo
— Rumiko Takahashi
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.
— Confucius
Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.
— Shannon L. Alder
We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder
— Pope Gregory I
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)
— Victor Hugo
A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.His fleshes increases
—  His wisdom does not increase.
The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
— Jacob Bronowski
The most talented people are always the nicest.
— James Caan
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
— George Sheehan
Wise men speak only of what they know
— J.R.R. Tolkien
When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
— Dale Carnegie
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
Don't be cool. Like everything.
— Shaky Kane
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
— John Brunner, The Jagged Orbit
Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.And you will see my children
—  your smile will never let you down ☺
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
— Ingrid Bergman
When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
— Sengcan, Hsin Hsin Ming
We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.
— Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.
— Luanne Rice, Firefly Beach
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.
— Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
— Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt
People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
— Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
— Sallust
It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance
Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.
— Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.
— Thomas M. Sterner, The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.
— Hugh MacLeod, Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination
If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.
— Colin Bateman, Mystery Man
Morality is the weakness of the mind.
— Arthur Rimbaud
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
Seek to learn constantly while you live
—  do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
— Sarah Jessica Parker
I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns for “humane” rape or “humane” child molestation. We condemn it all. We should do the same with respect to animal exploitation. Second, animal welfare reform does not provide significant protection for animal interests. Animals are chattel property; they are economic commodities. Given this status and the reality of markets, the level of protection provided by animal welfare will generally be limited to what promotes efficient exploitation. That is, we will protect animal interests to the extent that it provides an economic benefit.
— Gary L. Francione
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable
—  the latter is not.
A moment’s beginning ends in a moment
— Munia Khan
The night is still waiting.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
— Benjamin Franklin
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Dream by making and make by dreaming.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
— Kate Horsley
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
— Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it.
— William Wordsworth, Wordsworth: Poems
When you love you give meaning to this world. 
— Sorin Cerin
Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
— Edward M. Kennedy
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams
— Hugh Walpole
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The World According to Bertie
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
— George Eliot
I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world......I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom......and I've decided you're a pillock.]
— Roger Kettle, Beau Peep: Book Thirteen
End of a matter is better than its beginning
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Fools, their wisdom weak,are their own enemiesas they go through life,doing evilthat bearsbitter fruit.
— Juan Mascaró
Self-education is lifelong curiosity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Look no farther than your hand,Make a choice and take a stand.
— Shannon Hale, Princess Academy
There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.
— Donita K. Paul, DragonKnight
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
— George Gordon Byron
In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened species. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction.But why do they bother? Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks?Well, yes, it does. Every animal and plant is an integral part of its environment: even Komodo dragons have a major role to play in maintaining the ecological stability of their delicate island homes. If they disappear, so could many other species. And conservation is very much in tune with our survival. Animals and plants provide us with life-saving drugs and food, they pollinate crops and provide important ingredients or many industrial processes. Ironically, it is often not the big and beautiful creatures, but the ugly and less dramatic ones, that we need most.Even so, the loss of a few species may seem irrelevant compared to major environmental problems such as global warming or the destruction of the ozone layer. But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving.There is one last reason for caring, and I believe that no other is necessary. It is certainly the reason why so many people have devoted their lives to protecting the likes of rhinos, parakeets, kakapos, and dolphins. And it is simply this: the world would be a poorer, darker, lonelier place without them.
— Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See
As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you
— Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star
I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow.May the fire of love grow in our hearts.
— May the fire of transformation glow in our movements.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
— Aaron Cohen
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.
— Lionel Barrymore
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
— Ptah-Hotep
I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
— Seneca
Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
— John Crowley, Little, Big
The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it
— David Eddings, King of the Murgos
That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
— Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.
— Jess C. Scott, Take-Out, Part 1
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
— Vernon Howard
The greatest Emotion is Love.The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.The greatest gift is your own Life.The greatest pleasure is CHOCOLATE!The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is that there's always something new to learn.The greatest virtue is temperance.The greatest meditation is a peaceful mind.The greatest practice is to be Kind.education.The greatest challenge is to let go. The greatest wisdom is to be in the NOW
— Pablo
Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.
— Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Do you have a leather jacket? One for a ten-year-old boy?" I asked the man selling leather jackets and gloves in Covent Garden, London. "Yes, I have one right here!" And the man dug out a fine leather jacket that looked styled and tailored for a young boy. "I'm buying this for my son" I said to him. "I love this jacket, it's perfect, I think I will just come back for it tomorrow, though! I'll be back tomorrow, okay?" And the man reached his arms above his head, and said with a big smile upon his face "You only have one life to live! What is the difference if you do something today, or if you do it tomorrow?" I thought about the man's words. And I bought the jacket. He was right, there is no difference, really, between doing something today and doing something tomorrow, when you only have one life to live! Afterall, tomorrow may never come! All you really have is today!
— C. JoyBell C.
Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.
— Thomas M. Sterner, The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me.""I would hope so.
— Amanda Hocking, Wisdom
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit
— Benny Bellamacina
You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...
— Susan Meissner
It's only hard until it becomes easy.
— David A. Smith
Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfash-ionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. Like pulling on a Missoni sweater over Trussardi slacks and Pollini shoes, you can now enjoy hybrid styles of morality. It's the way of the world—philosophy starting to look more and more like business administration.Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.
— Paul Brunton, The Notebooks of Paul Brunton
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.
— Baltasar Gracián
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.
— John Keats
You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free.
— Nikki Rowe
INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.
— Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.
— Robertson Davies
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy.Deceit is a poison in its veins.
— Edward M. Kennedy
You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.
— Ann Rinaldi, Numbering All the Bones
The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Compassion for others is a mark of wisdom.
— Tadahiko Nagao
In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.
— Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture. 
— Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
I am not the river I am the net.
— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
We have all grown wiser.
— Ana Monnar
Quand on parle des vices d’un homme, si on vous dit : “Tout le monde le dit” ne le croyez pas ; si l’on parle de ses vertus en vous disant encore : “Tout le monde le dit”, croyez-le.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the worl can resist an evil-hearted man. And that is another man. In our shame is our glory. Only our spirit, which is capable of evil, is capable of overcoming it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
I am in the world to change the world
— Käthe Kollwitz
The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.
— Confucius, The Analects
A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth andsun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you,like the sunset.
— Beth Johnson
Too much stress cannot be laid...upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
— Ralph Alfred Habas, The Art of Self-Control
Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.
— Baruch Spinoza
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
MOMWholeheartedly,She loved me-And inspired me-With transcending devotion.It was a blessing-To have been her son,To have been loved-Without conditions.Her words of wisdom-Opened my eyes-To the world-And to myself.By seeing the best in me, She empowered me.By believing in me, She transformed me.She grew old-And floated away,But her love remains standing-Eternally by my side.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
all appears to change when we change
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.
— Luis Marques, Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus
You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
— Carole Wilkinson, Dragon Moon
Physical strength doesn't mean a damn thing when you're all cut up and bleeding inside. 
— Cameron Dane, Quick to the Hunt
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
— Samuel Johnson, The Idler; Poems
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.
— Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul
To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey
He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. The man in the worst confusion will end his life without ever getting straightened out; the biggest fool will end his life without ever seeing the light. If three men are traveling along and one is confused, they will still get where they are going - because confusion is in the minority. But if two of them are confused, then they can walk until they are exhausted and never get anywhere - because confusion is in the majority.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.
— Haim Shapira, Things That Matter
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place
— Abigail Van Buren
I thought about the difference between a mama's girl and a daddy's girl. I decided that a daughter who belongs to her daddy expects gifts, while a daughter who belongs to her mama expects a lot more. Not from her mama. From herself.
— Victoria Bond, Zora and Me
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
— Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.
— Romain Rolland, Jean Christophe Vol I
We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool:
— A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.
Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
— Trent Zelazny
We know that for mankind to move forward, changes must be made. However, if an old man is wise only by his gray hair, yet it is inevitable that this wisdom will also become impaired by age, then it can be deduced that we cannot expect the very old or very young to make progressive strides to better society, it must be up to the men and women still in the prime of their lives to re-learn and teach the changes needed to be made.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
— John Paul II, Love and Responsibility
Stuff your brain with knowledge.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are joy, looking for a way to express. It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That's who you are.
— Esther Hicks
You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey're within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask
— Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
When you feel life at crossroads,you need higher perspective view.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!
— Charles Alexander Eastman, The Soul of the Indian
Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.
— Allan Wolf, The Watch That Ends the Night
The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.
— Anonymous, The Arabian Nights
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.
— Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls
Let your wisdom guide youOn your own personal journey By listening to your heartYour soul will be alight And let you beAll that you are intended to be
— Karen Hackel, The Whisper of Your Soul
It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.
— Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted from their minds. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
— R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before
Here’s a little mote of wisdom: Not everyone who claims to be an expert, is indeed an expert. Please note: I have never claimed to be an expert on anything except perhaps making the perfect omelet, and if you don’t like spicy, you’d probably argue with me on that one, too. In fact, anyone claiming to be an expert on anything, in my opinion, should immediately be viewed with suspicion, or be able to produce a PhD Diploma on the subject he or she is professing to be expert in.
— Chris A. Jackson
Ego is recessive in wisdom.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. (“The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah”)
— William Beckford, The Episodes of Vathek
A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.
— Jayleigh Cape
Don't be bashful
—  we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.
Understand that nothing happensunless it is God's will anddo what you like.What can be simpler than that?
— Ramesh S. Balsekar
Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir.
— François-René de Chateaubriand, René
Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.
— Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.
— Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.
— Iimani David
Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.
— Raheel Farooq
A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.
— Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.
— Milton Glaser
Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym siódmym potem doktorów i profesorów. Wielkie absurdy nie są wymyślane przez tych, których rozum krząta się wokół spraw codziennych. Nic dziwnego zatem, że właśnie najintensywniejsi myśliciele bywali producentami największego głupstwa. / The history of culture shows that foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. It does not flourish on the fields of pure ignorance but on the fields tirelessly plowed by doctors and professors. Great absurdities do not flourish where one is busy with everyday life. No wonder that sometimes most vigorous thinkers come up with utmost stupidities. (Dziennik 1956, XIX, Thursday)
— Witold Gombrowicz
Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.
— Destiny Booze
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.
— Archilochos, Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochos
Only wise men look for new wisdom.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car
— Judy Gold
There's kind of wisdom that must be firstly rejected before accepted.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Don't kill me because I'm gay,pray for me for it is God who created me.
— Ocean Crisstopher Poet, Unknown Book 7431667
Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.
— Anasazi Foundation, The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
— Idries Shah, Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
— Suzy Kassem
Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match
— Joshua Caleb
Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
L’arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu’ils ont perdu la veille, ils s’apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.
— C.S. Lewis
Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.
— Shannon L. Alder
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
— David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.
— Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity
One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...
— Idries Shah, The Commanding Self