Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

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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• Wisdom

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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• Life

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

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• Wisdom

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

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• Inspirational

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

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• Wisdom

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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• Wisdom

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

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• Life

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

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• Life

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.

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• Love

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

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• Wisdom

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

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• Life

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

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• Wisdom

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

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• Wisdom

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.

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• Life