“It would have been so much in accordance with the wisdom of life, which consists in putting out of sight all the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“When you engage with people, you build your own insight into what’s being discussed. Someone else’s understanding complements yours, and together you… — Marcia Conner Copy Share Image
“Truth does not fulfill its destiny until it is known. Light does not fulfill its destiny until it is seen. Wisdom does… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to… — Roopleen Copy Share Image
“Nothing is richer than precious stones and than gold; nothing is finer than adamant, nothing nobler than the blood of kings; nothing… — Jean Passerat Copy Share Image
“We are all born with infinite wisdom at our fingertips. All you have to do is approach every disagreement, debate, and alternative… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
“The four had come to an exciting decision" during the six months of the blockade threatened by the authorities, they would make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
“The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently… — Annette Simmons Copy Share Image
I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual… — Pat Derby Copy Share Image
I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Why don’t I lose sleep over haters? Because I know that their hate for me is just an indication of a much… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“to type in a response, and then allowed subsequent readers to add additional comments. Literally hundreds of viewers read the draft and… — Cathy N. Davidson Copy Share Image
“The person who desires to leave things better than he found them, who does more than his share, who is not attached… — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“That’s because I help them understand a pearl of wisdom that I’m now going to share with you: the only way your… — Alisa Vitti Copy Share Image
It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“This is life in a fallen world, where wars come and go, where nations rage and people cry in torment. We must… — Janette Oke Copy Share Image
A teacher of knowledge and power gives you experiences in other dimensions. They show you that the universe is much bigger and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I tend to listen to the artists that originally inspired me to start playing music in the first place, because there is… — Jason C. Miller Copy Share Image
“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Littlewood, on Hardy's own estimate, is the finest mathematician he has ever known. He was the man most likely to storm and… — Henry Hallett Dale Copy Share Image
There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
“Baboons are very wise animals,” Bast said. “Agh!” Khufu picked his nose, then turned his Technicolor bum our direction. He threw his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“How noble is the journey of each human being, from Divine to dust and back again. How brave to enter a body… — Annie Kagan Copy Share Image
