Wisdom
Quotes
Man
is a Mystery
“Love
is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel
good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when
there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever
met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can.
Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance
encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not
to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're
damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“A
wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
―
Francis Bacon, The Essays
“Of
all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep,
his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their
own conscience.”
― C.
S. Lewis
“Man
is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life
unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery
because I want to be a human being.”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Having
children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
―
Michael Levine
“As
much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would
choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely
those things that are worst for them.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“The
only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“You're
going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the
obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and
everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator.
Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity
that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they
mistake for weakness. It's not your job to change these people, but it's your
job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I
have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not
fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the
gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to
be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There
are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of
what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate
over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that
predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is
you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they
attempt to rip me, they can't. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not
deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take
gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this
world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“The
essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
―
George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950
“I
ask not for any crown
But
that which all may win;
Nor
try to conquer any world
Except
the one within.”
―
Louisa May Alcott
“Wisdom
is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
―
Albert Einstein
“As
if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
―
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I
believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd
moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of
wisdom.”
―
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
“Inventory:
"Four
be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness,
sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four
be the things I'd been better without:
Love,
curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three
be the things I shall never attain:
Envy,
content, and sufficient champagne.
Three
be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter
and hope and a sock in the eye.”
―
Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“He
that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“People
who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
―
Jean Jacques Rousseau
“When
a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a
production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster
than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
―
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“There
is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage
and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and
song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“It
does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have
gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive
vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
―
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“A
fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
―
Jess C Scott
