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Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

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You'll learn wisdom for yourself, if you have become sedentary. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You can only love, it is impossible to unlove, as you can only drink but never can undrink. — Debasish Mridha

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust. — Sharon Salzberg

You're the way, you are the light. Let's go to illuminate the world. — Debasish Mridha

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. — Homer

The effect of overworking; we miss sacred moments. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is a longing for giving and receiving. — Debasish Mridha

A desire to become a more loving, better, and beautiful person is the key to all enduring success. — Debasish Mridha

the vehicle depends upon its fuel to operate effectively — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn — Idries Shah

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride. — Lailah Gifty Akita

"if a rock falls on another rock on the other side of the moon, how does Islam explain it?"
"Who Cares?" — Nuh Ha Mim Keller

Wisdom is precious because of the price we pay for it. — Jody Day

Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Knowledge becomes power when you share it. — Debasish Mridha

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — Niels Bohr

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom. — Sharon Salzberg

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. — Cyril Connolly

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. — George William Russell

I am most grateful to the Lord for the gift of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give. — Gerry Geek

Fear must be conquered with faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Change of heart comes from the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it. — H. Rider Haggard

Be a star in someones sky. — Debasish Mridha

Money is not the cure for misery but changing our perception is. — Debasish Mridha

Never go for a drink in London's square mile, nobody ever gets a round in. — Benny Bellamacina

I find myself in the moment of solitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gifts become curses when they're not given their due respect. — Dannika Dark

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

There is neither mistake nor failures. It is only experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The wisdom from failure is greater than the arrogance of success. — A.J. Garces

When we are looking for opportunity, we should keep in mind that life itself is an opportunity. — Debasish Mridha

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. — Richard Baxter

The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth. — Geoffrey Knight

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. — Jim Butcher

Wisdom comes to no one by chance. — Seneca The Younger

Always stay one step a head, unless you're already there — Benny Bellamacina

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom. — Confucius

Wisdom begins in knowing the self. — Abhijit Naskar

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV. — Dejan Stojanovic

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. — Renae Jones

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service. — Charles E. Fuller

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. — John Thorn

When you love someone who hates you, that is the practice of divine love. — Debasish Mridha

It's impossible to conquer the Promised Land and be successful in it without God's wisdom. — Sunday Adelaja

The light is shinning in every dark place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live within your ability but think beyond your capability. — Debasish Mridha

Knowledge is the seed,
intelligence is the stem,
understanding is the branch,
and wisdom is the fruit. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God — Radhe Maa

You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time — Sunday Adelaja

Every new morning brings new freshness and new renewal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

But cycling is less a hobby than it is a discipline with the potential to transform you. It brings balance. — BikeSnobNYC

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. — Jonas Salk

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray

If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while ... — John Geddes

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex. — Chuck Klosterman

No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life. — Sorin Cerin

Friends are the best helpers. They come prepackaged with compassion and love. All they need is wisdom, and that is available to everyone. — Edward T. Welch

When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom. — Robin Sharma

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. — Khalil Gibran

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices. — Cheng Yi

Open your eyes; you will see the greatness of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can't trust others, nobody will be able to trust you. — Debasish Mridha

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle.

Those who never trial, never fails. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your uniqueness, your voice. — Lailah Gifty Akita

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. — John Calvin

Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don't wait for the miracle; be the miracle. — Debasish Mridha

Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you. — Ricky Maye

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not. — Lord Chesterfield

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself — Idries Shah

Kindness is not loving someone who deserve your love, it is loving someone who doesn't deserve your love. — Debasish Mridha

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell

Just because it is night now it doesn't mean that there is no morning. Just hope for the best and be patient. — Debasish Mridha

There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful for the time to prepare and learn to harness it. — Tom Althouse

The beauty of life is sharing life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Within the 24 hours, make some time for your own work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. — Scott Adams

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. — Christina Baldwin

It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world. — Frederick Lenz

The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle.

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice. — Edith Hamilton

If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry? — Mike Horn

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Life is exciting. It's more exciting if you can dance with joy alone. — Debasish Mridha

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac