Quotes and sayings about tag  #wisdom

Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

352 Quotes

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel García Márquez

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Gautama Buddha

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Gautama Buddha

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[Verse 223]

Gautama Buddha

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

Gautama Buddha

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

George Eliot

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

George R.R. Martin

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Hamza Yusuf

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Harper Lee

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Harper Lee

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Harry Truman

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Heinrich Heine

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

Henry James

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Heraclitus

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Heraclitus

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Heraclitus

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

Heraclitus

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Heraclitus

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Hermann Hesse

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Hermann Hesse

To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.

Hlovate

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