Wisdom Quotes · Page 128

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Obstacles in your life are not in your way, they are the way.”

— John Bruna

This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

— Jean Cocteau

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Whatever you experience is what you must feel.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

— David Starr Jordan

“Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“I've often wondered why Nature, widely publicized being infinite in its wisdom, should have made the grave mistake of creating redheads, always…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities.

— Janet Evanovich

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Nature has created countless number of wonders, we got a long way to go as man have created only seven wonders.”

— Amit Kalantri

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our…

— Jack Kornfield

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

— Emile Zola

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

— Saint Augustine

“She stares at her knife and wishes she were smarter about things. Wishes she knew how to say something wise or consoling…

— Diane Abu-Jaber

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things…

— Sharon Salzberg

As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything…

— Nirmala Srivastava

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine…

— Robert White

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any…

— George Santayana

“Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and…

— N.T. Wright

The big insight that I have, not so much from writing 'Red Notice' but from living as the main character of 'Red…

— Bill Browder

“(For those who like to quote Aristotle’s wisdom when appealing to his “Prime Mover” argument for the existence of God, let us…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“A man who would give advice without understanding is a fool.”

— J. Kyle McNeal

“Wisdom fortifies your mind, courage bulletproofs your heart, and love strengthens your soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If you buy something which you can't pay for, you will sell what you willingly wouldn't.

— Vikrant Parsai

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

— Alexander Pope

You can fake a smile, but you can't fake your feelings.

— Anmol Andore

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

“Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.”

— Amit Kalantri

A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend.

— Vikrant Parsai

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

— Confucius

If you love someone and they say A, then you shouldnt say A, you should say B.

— Vikrant Parsai

“If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve”

— Benny Bellamacina

Your happiness is determined by something you do, not something you know.

— Vikrant Parsai

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

— Josh Billings

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.”

— Bryant McGill