Pithy Homespun Wisdom Quotes

He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise. ~ J. Loren Norris

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into
conventional wisdom. ~ Steven D. Levitt

The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents ~ A. Lee Martinez

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. ~ Knut Hamsun

Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love. ~ Sebastian Pole

Wisdom solves almost anything ~ Sunday Adelaja

Most wise people are fucked up. You don't gain wisdom from pleasant experiences, after all - you buy it with pain. ~ Dianne Sylvan

Wisdom is the essence of experiences. ~ Debasish Mridha

The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of Allah's message. ~ Martin Lings

There is a cost to deceit," she whispered, "a price to pay," and reached over to hold his hand. ~ Vera Jane Cook

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples
they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage. ~ Pope Francis

Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us but, more often than not, it is ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each adventure until the light has grown bright enough for us to reach for it. ~ Donna Goddard

Fury reigns down on those who ignore in the wisdom of fear itself. ~ Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

Plunging into the depths of hell, re-opening the gates to wounds and emotions that we have long tried to keep sealed and locked within, we discover that that the devil is not the Herculean ruler of darkness that we had imagined, but only a vulnerable and devastated child. With honesty and without judgment, we must muster the courage to meet this innocent child with whom we have come to label as the devil. ~ Forrest Curran

Every new morning brings new sunshine, new joy and new hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Eternity lies at the edge of time. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. ~ Rajneesh

Youth is a marvelous garment. How misplaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity, when, as in her own case, one ceases to be une jeune fille un peu folle, and becomes merely a woman, worst of all, a wife. The very young have their troubles, but they have at least a part to play, the part of being very young. ~ Iris Murdoch

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. ~ Thomas Dekker

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this. ~ Gautama Buddha

The ocean's depth does not affect the water's beauty. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out. ~ Jaron Lanier

Someone says that I haven't taught him anything that he can remember. He can't understand yet that that's precisely what I am aiming at… ~ Idries Shah

Sirri al-Saqati, who died in 867 of the Christian Era, said:
'True wisdom is: non-attachment to self and devotion to Truth. ~ Idries Shah

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

Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask. ~ Rebecca Taylor

Wisdom is knowing when you have enough. ~ Marty Rubin

Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. ~ George Sheehan

God gives life, strength and wisdom for every accomplishment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The measure of a life is not in its longevity but in its generosity. ~ Debasish Mridha

If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it! ~ Breaker Morant

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process. ~ Chungliang Al Huang