Wisdom Quotes · Page 289

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

— Aristotle

“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”

— Denis Healey

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

— Herbie Hancock

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

— Sivananda

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

— C. S. Lewis

“...the collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.”

— Robyn Donald

“QUO QUIS EO SAPIENTIOR BEATIOR EST (THE WISE A MAN, THE HAPPIER HE IS)”

— Udeke Charles

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Some choose to influence change, and some choose to be influenced by change. You choose which one are you.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.”

— Idries Shah

Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.

— John Grinder

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

— George Bancroft

A little jealousy in a relationship is healthy. It's always nice to know someones afraid to lose you.

— Anonymous

“Compassion and communication are both incredibly important in relationships, but most of us use these at the wrong time. If we communicate,…

— Vironika Tugaleva

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not…

— Thomas Merton

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back,…

— Lois Lowry

“A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her…

— Suzy Kassem

Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout…

— Christiane Northrup

“What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful? Success can be different things to different people. For us being…

— Raphael Zernoff

Thus said Buddha, and it therefore follows that if a man is happy, it is because he dwells in happy thoughts; if…

— Anonymous

“[My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked…

— Carolyn Weber

At last! Someone with the insight to solve the pobrlem!

— Johannah

The more shit you've gone through the more wiser you are about certain topics.

— Bailey Renee

Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to fight for what you deserve.

— Melchor Lim

If you never take advice, you will never have anyone to blame things on.

— Vikrant Parsai

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

— Jack Kerouac

You pretend to be a visitor, but are really a spy.

— Vikrant Parsai

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

— Samuel Lover

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

— Louisa May Alcott

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

— Charlie Munger

The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.

— Nirmala Srivastava

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Wisdom doesn't always come with age. But age always comes with experience.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The best accessory you should always wear is your SMILE.

— Anonymous

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

— Tom Peters

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

— Donald Bradman