Wisdom
Quotes
Simple
can be Harder than Complex
“Where
wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
―
Carl Gustav Jung
“Transformation
is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result
of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life.
Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for
you if you don’t show up as you.”
―
Jason Mraz
“I
think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they
believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
―
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“In
order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
―
Octavia Butler
“Simple
can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to
make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you
can move mountains.”
―
Steve Jobs
“We
don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no
one can take for us or spare us.”
―
Marcel Proust
“Re-examine
all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
―
Walt Whitman
“In
fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat,
although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in:
these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
“Prediction
is very difficult, especially about the future.”
―
Niels Bohr
“If
others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us
something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the
need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make
assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all
sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.”
―
Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
“If
you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”
―
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Madame,
all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story
teller who would keep that from you.”
―
Hemingway, Ernest
“My
soul is in the sky.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“There
is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
―
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
“It
is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
―
Bruce Lee
“Employ
your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come
easily by what others have labored hard for.”
―
Socrates
“The
way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”
―
Confucius
“Wisdom....
comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
―
Anton Chekhov
“Most
things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom,
but to scar tissue and callus.”
―
Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
“There
is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can
see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”
―
Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
