It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Mind is the master of this planet, and when that mind is not moral, not conscientious, not wise, it leads to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
All things are contrary to a man without discernment But the weapons of perception are wise lips. — Proverbs 14:7 Copy Share Image
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.” — Ka Hancock Copy Share Image
“wisdom begins when you discover the difference between ‘That doesn’t make sense’ and ‘I don’t understand.’ ” “Then I must be very wisdom.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“If there is any church service that you attend and it quickens your purpose and adds value to your life, if that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Use wisdom when developing relationships and establishing new alliances. There are people who do not have pure motives as it pertains to… — Dr. Glen A. Staples Copy Share Image
“Just as the light of a single candle can dispel the darkness of a thousand years, the moment we light a single… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
“If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Scripture establishes the wisdom of planning as a God-dependent, assessment-based collaborative process for seasonal rhythms and special reasons.” — Will Mancini Copy Share Image
“From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant,… — Beth Johnson Copy Share Image
There are good, God-fearing persons who still fall into certain faults, and it is better to bear with them than to be… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the… — Judith Malina Copy Share Image
When god closes a door he opens a window to explore. You have no idea what he has in store, perhaps something… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
You may look into your mirror and see flaws, but someone else looks at you, and only sees beauty. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, That is why I am… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wise man doesn't need to be praised like one. It can reduce the guts of him to be a better man.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by. — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
“And if the many sayings of the wise Teach of submission I will not submit But with a spirit all unreconciled Flash… — Jennifer Donelly Copy Share Image
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggles like a swimmer… — Proverb Copy Share Image
“I have never tried anything psychedelic, but I’ve always wanted to. Would I be wrapped up in colors, attacked by sounds, filled… — Rita Golden Gelman Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
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