100+ Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

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Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

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It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

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Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

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I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

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Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

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A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

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Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.

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Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

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It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

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Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

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In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

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My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

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When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

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You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.

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We're on the same boat but in different cabin

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I'm not young enough to know everything.

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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

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Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

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Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

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We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

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Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

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Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

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I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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