Wisdom
Quotes
The Past
has No Power
“Don't
waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
―
Paulo Coelho
“The
past has no power over the present moment.”
―
Eckhart Tolle
“You
will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
―
Colette
“The
only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have
to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
―
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“I'm
not young enough to know everything.”
―
J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
“Failure
is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
―
Truman Capote
“Don't
Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
―
Bob Marley
“Knowledge
speaks, but wisdom listens”
―
Jimi Hendrix
“We
can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human
wisdom.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Even
strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“You
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection.”
―
Sharon Salzberg
“The
mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
―
Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North
America
“Sell
your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
―
Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
“The
more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
―
Voltaire
“I’m
not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world
to live up to mine.”
―
Bruce Lee
“We
learn from failure, not from success!”
―
Bram Stoker, Dracula
“There
are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But
they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand
why they were there.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
“Do
you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an
intelligence and make it a soul?”
―
John Keats, Letters of John Keats
“He
who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
―
Confucius
“Music
is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
―
Ludwig van Beethoven
