“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“If you have wisdom, what do you lack? If you lack wisdom, what do you have?” — Midrash Copy Share Image
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The Sun, the Stars, the Seas with all other things were made by the Divine Being, God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Take the risk of thinking for yourself; much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Baby! Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. — KM II Copy Share Image
. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.” — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
If you have no money, you have no friends; but if you have it, then they are not friends. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Success is a ladder cursed to those who dont have hands but what about you, my dear? — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“In darkness lies a mystery that has the power to shine brighter than true light. ☥” — Luis Marques Copy Share Image
“Love is wiser than wisdom.” ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose” — The Name of the Rose Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Grits Pearl of Wisdom #18: Flowers at a party are as Southern as sweet tea and barbeque. ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others — Tibetan Proverb Copy Share Image
Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image