Wisdom Quotes - He hated when his
own advice applied to himself
“Many have died; you also will die.
The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream.
Only sayings of the wise will remain.”
― Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir
“There are four things that lead
to wisdom. You ready for them?'
She nodded, wondering when the
police work would begin.
"They are four sentences we
learn to say, and mean." Gamache held up his hand as a fist and raised a
finger with each point. "I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was
wrong'.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life
“He hated when his own advice applied
to himself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of
Olympus
“Even as a solid rock is unshaken
by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”
― Dhammapada
“People who say that yesterday
was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
“It’s always the ones who are the
quietest who often have the greatest things to say.”
― T.J. Klune
“Windmill or no windmill, he
said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm
“A fool's paradise is a wise
man's hell.”
― Thomas Fuller
“Who is wise? He that learns from
everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that
is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“Love is wise; hatred is foolish.
In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have
to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that
some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that
way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind
of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the
continuation of human life on this planet.”
― Bertrand Russell
“Whoever cannot seek the
unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments
“All successful people men and
women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every
respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or
purpose.”
― Brian Tracy, Personal Success
“Humor can get in under the door
while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“Is it so far from madness to
wisdom?"
- Daenerys Targaryen”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of
Thrones
“The ability to discipline yourself
to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in
the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
― Brian Tracy
“Getting divorced just because
you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
”
― Zsa Zsa Gabor
“You'll never reach perfection
because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to
perfection, you'll learn to get better.”
― Hlovate, Versus
“And the fox said to the little
prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become
responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“There will come a time in your
life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you
won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you
don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.”
― J. Sterling, The Perfect Game
“Owning land is like owning the
ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”
― Tamanend
“Where is the wisdom we have lost
in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have
lost in information?”
― T.S. Eliot, The Rock
“Chase away sorrow by living”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy
“Once the writer in every
individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age
of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of
Laughter and Forgetting
