Wisdom

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

{Epictetus}

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."

{Warren Buffet}

"Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow."

{Rumi}

"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.''

{Lyndon B. Johnson}

"Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living."

{Kevin D. Weeks}

"Life is "trying things to see if they work."

{Ray Bradbury}

"If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm."

{Warren Wendel Wiersbe}

"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."

{Baruch Spinoza}

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."

{Powell Davies}

"Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice."

{Sophocles}

 

"There are many gates to the house of wisdom."

{Edward Counsel}

"Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions."

{Eckhart Tolle}

 

"Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul."

{Edward Counsel}

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

{Aeschylus}

"The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity."

{Sophocles}

"Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost."

{Edward Counsel}

"Second thoughts are ever wiser.''

 {Euripides}

 

"Full wise is he that can himself know."

{Geoferey Chaucer}

 

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

{Hermann Hesse}

 

"Wisdom is the never-failing granary of thought."

{Edward Counsel}