Wisdom Quotes · Page 191

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

— Thomas Merton

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

— Mother Teresa

We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.

— Victor Hugo

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Its not workload that kills you, its worry that kills you.”

— Vijay Dhameliya

A good reputation is a very easy thing to lose and a very hard thing to get.

— Vikrant Parsai

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

— George W. Bush

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

— William Butler Yeats

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

— Christopher Paolini

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

— Susan L. Taylor

Knowledge is not vast collection of academic degrees but right empowerment of open mind with an enlightment of wisdom to make correct…

— Ritu Ghatourey

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine.

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something…

— Don Henley

Knowing when to walk away, is Wisdom. Being able to, is Courage. Walking away with Grace, and your held head high, is…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect…

— Thomas Paine

“Christians, then, should expect to find nonbelievers who are much nicer, kinder, wiser, and better than they are. Why? Christian believers are…

— Timothy J. Keller

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are…

— Anthony Trollope

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation…

— Anonymous

So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are…

— Nirmala Srivastava

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the…

— Charlie Munger

The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may…

— Ambrose

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within…

— Thomas Jefferson

“This is a gradual process and takes time and patience. With dedicated practice, peace and happiness can become our baseline. The more…

— Julie T. Lusk

“When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.”

— John Connolly

Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

— Laozi

“When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.”

— Amit Kalantri

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

— Abraham Lincoln

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.

— Oscar Wilde

“Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.”

— Amit Kalantri

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

— Confucius

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

— Ram Dass

“Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are”

— Benny Bellamacina

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

— Democritus

That which is gained by the sacrifice of character should be called a loss.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Our world is nothing but a mistery. You never know what happens the next second...”

— Mykyta Isagulov

Always learn to accept ups and downs of life, because it clearly does offer.

— Vikrant Parsai

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

— Edmund Burke

“God existed before every religion; He exists in spite of all religions.”

— Danail Hristov

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

— Milarepa