Quotes and sayings about tag  #wisdom

Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

352 Quotes

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.

Hlovate

We're on the same boat but in different cabin

Hlovate

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Holly Black

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Homer

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Honoré de Balzac

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Horace

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Isaac Newton

There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

J. Sterling

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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

Jasper Fforde

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Jim Rohn

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Jimi Hendrix

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Jodi Picoult

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

John Milton

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

John Paul II

A man without words is a man without thought.

John Steinbeck

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Joseph Brodsky

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Joss Whedon

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Joyce Carol Oates

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