Wisdom
Quotes
Develop
an Attitude of Gratitude
“Learned
we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our
own.”
―
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“Anger
exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
―
Euripides
“Love
only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to
others.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Develop
an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger
and better than your current situation.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Those
who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only
by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill,
in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In
snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the
mere knowledge which is of evil.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems
“Travel
brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than
ever.”
―
Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
“I've
come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the
foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now
enjoy. ”
―
Anthony Robbins
“For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”
―
Christopher Hitchens
“That's
not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.”
―
Judy Blume, Forever...
“Our
ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”
―
Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Strike Again
“Always
forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and
doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
―
Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds
“I
don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like
those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight
in order to conquer it.”
―
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Sometimes
you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it
alone.”
―
Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
“People
who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing
in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment
after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't
accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the
right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and
conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before
falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day
and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you
try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve
quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is
certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by
experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!”
―
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“To
hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic
“Love
of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political
opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the
stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what
build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“You
are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can
do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence
of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
―
Terence McKenna
“Every
intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once
fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all
things to know.”
―
Alan Watts
“I
will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and
sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
―
John Milton
“The
moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he
can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”
―
Eric Berne
“Stories
have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to
delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into
thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.”
―
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her
Own Making
