Wisdom
Quotes - The wise are not wise
“There
are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who
make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who
make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and
wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who
change the world everyday... Women like you.”
―
Ashley Rice
“It
is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
―
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
“Every
immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English
or leave the country.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“The
wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they
correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
―
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
“When
you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to
laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.”
―
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island
“A
desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of
all human wisdom.”
―
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“Give
a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy
a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.”
―
Scott Adams
“When
you're in a Slump,
you're
not in for much fun.
Un-slumping
yourself
is
not easily done.”
―
Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“How
could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given
over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could
we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was
going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own
actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd
never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love
anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
―
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Please,
touch me, I pray.”
―
Jess C Scott, The Intern
“Sanity
calms, but madness is more interesting.”
―
John Russell
“I've
found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances,
Be more active, Show up more often.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Dieting
is the only game where you win when you lose!”
―
Karl Lagerfeld
“How
prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
―
Homer
“Yet
what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is
this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I
was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Can
you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions,
comparing, or trying to figure something out?”
―
Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's
“Two
wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't
make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”
―
Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen
“Begin,
be bold, and venture to be wise.”
―
Horace
“Wisdom
is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
―
Brian Rathbone, Regent
“Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The
mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly
to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions
courageously and honestly.”
―
Albert Einstein
“You
can’t dethrone a king if you don’t know they exist.”
―
Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success
“It
doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those
two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the
best at anything you do in life.”
―
Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and
Beyond
“It
is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
―
Dejan Stojanovic
“Time
flows away like the water in the river. ”
―
Confucius
“But
if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you
become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand
why you are here.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Why
should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder,
more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet
death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more
charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker,
than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler
than Lao-tsze, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights
and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than
Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler’s or
Newton’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno? Was he in
intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of
thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of
the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of
Shakespeare, the greatest of the human race?”
―
Robert G. Ingersoll, About The Holy Bible
