Wisdom
Quotes
The Man
of Wisdom
“Death,
therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are,
death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
―
Epicurus
“If
Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
―
Mark Twain, Notebook
“Don't
go looking for boys in the dark
They
will say pretty things then
leave
you with scars.
Do
go looking for boys in the park
For
that is where the true gentlemen are.”
―
Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
“Before
I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that
doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
―
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“The
man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the
man of benevolence never worries;
the
man of courage is never afraid.”
―
Confucius
“It
doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
―
Brian Tracy
“The
small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear,
transparent, pure.
The
great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark,
mysterious, impenetrable.”
―
Rabindranath Tagore
“Only
the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
―
Confucius
“When
you make a choice, you change the future.”
―
Deepak Chopra
“Mama
used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse
her soul.”
―
Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
“I
will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the
ruins.”
―
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Conquer
the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the
stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse
223]”
―
Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada
“No
one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“My
head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
―
Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
“Perhaps
the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the
same.”
―
Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
“The
road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
―
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Wisdom
is knowing I am nothing,
Love
is knowing I am everything,
and
between the two my life moves.”
―
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“My
feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic
“Books
permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The
library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from
Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn
from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring,
and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of
the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our
awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future
can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
―
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
