Wisdom Quotes · Page 332

“Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time”

— Benny Bellamacina

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

— Evanescence

“The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Man is doomed not when he does not know, but when he does not want to know.”

— Raheel Farooq

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

— John Denham

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

— Patrick Ness

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

— William Faulkner

It's better to be slapped by the truth than kissed with a lie.

— Anonymous

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in…

— Dwight L. Moody

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

— Joseph Story

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

— David Landes

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king…

— Victor Hugo

I have gained no wisdom at all in my old age, but that's the only message I have. It's down to you,…

— Sheila Hancock

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

— Napoleon Hill

“When the sands of time come falling down, we are only left with our choices. Choose wisely; however, some may argue wisdom…

— Virginia Vayna

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these…

— Joan Halifax

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he…

— Anonymous

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together…

— E. O. Wilson

“Effective branding comes down to creating a sense of comfort, recognition, and trust in your engagement, your message, and your products. It…

— Loren T Weisman

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast…

— Steven Pinker

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.…

— John Hall Gladstone

“My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I…

— Happy Positivity

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

— Thomas Fuller

Profoundness doesn't come intelligence, but from pure knowledge.

— Francelys Melecio

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy, like love, can survive almost any attack except neglect and indifference.

— Vikrant Parsai

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

— William Hazlitt

“but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

— George R.R. Martin

“A new beginning comes from a new decision, and vise versa”

— Farley Maglaya

Spending money more than you can earn is spinning a rope around your own neck.

— Vikrant Parsai

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

— Nirmala Srivastava

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

— William Hazlitt

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

— Dorothy Day

“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Carl Sagan

“Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively”

— Sunday Adelaja

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

— Leonard Ravenhill