To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
God has a reason for allowing things to happen. We may never understand His wisdom but we simply have to trust His… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
“God brings wonderful people into our lives. He also takes people out to protect us from harm. When we roll with God’s… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
“Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's consciousness.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. After the light is let in to our self-perceptions, we immediately… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it.… — Dale E. Turner Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us… — Cofer Black Copy Share Image
I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently, Wastes not breathe on others affairs; possess foremost mark of wisdom truly. [25]… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
“The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Intelligence is learning from your own mistakes; wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others. Its less painful to be wise than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit. — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.” — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“When you let go of expectations and just dive in, possibilities you couldn't have dreamed of emerge. - L. R. W. Lee” — L.R.W. Lee Copy Share Image
Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living. — Timothy Freke Copy Share Image
Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Based on personal experience and not just on theory, Prayerwalk, offers readers practical insights on how to get up, get moving, and… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
It is better to study the books of world instead of dealing with the books of your own mind as it is… — Fadi Copy Share Image
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
“... the damned had been given that insight which makes hardship so easy to bear — the absolute and certain knowledge that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image