Wisdom
Quotes
Common
Sense
“We
seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not
actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did
not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan
Watts
“Life
would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
―
Stephen Hawking
“Authority
without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than
polish.”
―
Anne Bradstreet
“It
is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that
the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“This
being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a
depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected
visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark
thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them
in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from
beyond.”
―
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
“Common
sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
―
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains
“Sometimes
one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their
wisdom.”
―
Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
“If
we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Risks
must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
―
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Never
complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make
excuses.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Whenever
I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on
him personally.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“Time
is a game played beautifully by children.”
―
Heraclitus, Fragments
“Those
sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good
things come to those who wait.”
―
Jess C. Scott, The Intern
“Honesty
is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
―
Thomas Jefferson
“It
is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
―
George R.R. Martin
“The
public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth
knowing.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
“Sometimes,
if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river
slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to
be known.”
―
A.A. Milne
“We
have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen
to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now
is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about
Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered,
you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic
media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is
shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what
is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your
orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're
unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.'
And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to
reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who
want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being
manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
―
Terence McKenna
“Suffering
is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
―
Rumi
