Wisdom Quotes · Page 157

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

— Stefan Hell

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.”

— Amit Kalantri

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

— Francis Bacon

To know God is knowledge. To fear Him is Wisdom.

— Terry Mark

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

— William Shakespeare

In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.

— Rupert Spira

Beware of the person who speaks without modesty because he will always break his promises.

— Vikrant Parsai

To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are…

— Alan Cohen

“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."…

— Victor Hugo

“God protects us from Satan even at times when we are not aware of His protection. But how can we develop Jesus-like…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

“Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and…

— Hailey Edwards

“One of the major insights of Zen is that the world should be perceived directly, not as an array of embodied names.”

— Thomas Hoover

“You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that.”

— J. Cornell Michel

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior…

— Anonymous

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and…

— Marilynne Robinson

“When I was in college I had a wisdom tooth pulled, and I was given a prescription for a bottle of narcotic…

— Gary Reilly

“In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are…

— Chet Raymo

All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is…

— George Clooney

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath…

— Bible

I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested…

— Anonymous

If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer…

— Shel Silverstein

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by…

— Michael Leunig

“The Fall, so often considered a terrible thing, is a fall into experience; like falling of the epileptic to earth, it may…

— Caitlín Matthews

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

— William Shakespeare

“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

— Milton H. Erickson

You've Got to Know...A Child Will Ask Questions, that Even a Wise Man Can Not Answer

— Ritu Ghatourey

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

— Anonymous

The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes.

— Vikrant Parsai

Everything you want in your future is already in your present.

— Vikrant Parsai

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

— James Thurber

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

— Juvenal

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

— James A. Garfield

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

— Douglas Mawson

“I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.”

— Richard Smyth

“Only those who take responsibility for their mistakes, are rewarded with wisdom”

— Michael Lieber

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

— Abraham Lincoln

“We attract what we are. We attract who we are.”

— Bryant McGill

“Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.”

— Amit Kalantri