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}

Wisdom Quotes

"Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say 'yes'."

 {Eleanor Roosevelt"

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

{Marie Curie}

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

{M. Scott Peck}

"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves."

{Robert Neelly Bellah}

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."

{Buddha}

"There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion."

{Seth Godin}

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

{Napoleon Hill}

"In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart."

{Roberta Sage Hamilton}

Thinking man

"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."

{Sally Kempton}

"The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."

{Ralph Waldo Emerson}

"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

{Pearl Bailey}

"The universe is transformation."

{Louise Erdrich}

"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it."

{Stephen Covey}

"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."

{Ellen Goodman}

"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value."

{Bertrand Russell}

"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure."

{Cesar Chavez}