Quotes and sayings about tag  #wisdom

Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

352 Quotes

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Abraham H. Maslow

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Georgia O'Keeffe

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Abraham Lincoln

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Alan W. Watts

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

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

H.L. Mencken

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H.L. Mencken

Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.

Hannah Harrington

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

Allan Lokos

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

Amit Ray

I'm not young enough to know everything.

J.M. Barrie

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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

Amy Poehler

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Anton Chekhov

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Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Bob Dylan

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.

L.J. Smith

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.

L.M. Montgomery

I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!

C. JoyBell C.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Confucius

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

Leo F. Buscaglia

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

Lynn Marie Sager

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

M.M. Kaye

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

Madeleine L'Engle

The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11)

Confucius

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