Proverbial Wisdom Quotes

May your happiness be according to your wishes. ~ Lawrence H. Levy

More effectively than any of the other tales, 'The Emperor's New Clothes' established Andersen's reputation as a man who created stories for children - not just in the sense of target audience, but also as beneficiaries of something extraordinary. The lesson embedded in it is so transparent that its title circulates in the form of proverbial wisdom about social hypocrisy. But more importantly, 'The Emperor's New Clothes' romanticizes children by investing them with the courage to challenge authority and to speak truth to power. ~ Maria Tatar

Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day. ~ Brian Spellman

You don't need the mirror to see what you have on your wrist
Meaning: the truth is visible and clear. ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Do not be cheated by the beauty of every flowers from far, because there is a flower which it is a thorn hurts you. ~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

A lucky person is one who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes. ~ Julia Stuart

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all. ~ Mason Cooley

Study to learn, do not study to pass". ~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is? ~ C. Fern Cook

Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were...two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win. ~ Afia Atakora

If you are not a king, do not accept the throne, which is the sit of your downfall. ~ Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

The stomach does not reveal what it ate ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

A peasant with gold is still a peasant ~ Tom Doig

Only those that make "Peace" shall have peace of mind. For in the creating of peace there is a solace of the heart and mind that surrenders logic for calm. A calm that only those
who know how to be still within their mind can be open to many wondrous things. Peace for its own sake is empty. Peace when it is shared is truly lasting and harmonious.
Surrender your havoc and know the healing fortitude that a gentle peace can only offer through unconditional love. Amen. ~ Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

My own acid-eating experience is limited in terms of total consumption, but widely varied as to company and circumstances ... and if I had a choice of repeating any one of the half dozen bouts I recall, I would choose one of those Hell's Angels parties in La Honda, complete with all the mad lighting, cops on the road, a Ron Boise sculpture looming out of the woods, and all the big speakers vibrating with Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." It was a very electric atmosphere. If the Angels lent a feeling of menace, they also made it more interesting ... and far more alive than anything likely to come out of a controlled experiment or a politely brittle gathering of well-educated truth-seekers looking for wisdom in a capsule. Dropping acid with the Angels was an adventure; they were too ignorant to know what to expect, and too wild to care. They just swallowed the stuff and hung on ... which is probably just as dangerous as the experts say, but a far, far nuttier trip than sitting in some sterile chamber with a condescending guide and a handful of nervous, would-be hipsters. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Letting go of sorrow gives you enough strength to carry happiness.
Letting go of anger gives you enough strength to carry kindness.
Letting go of fear gives you enough strength to carry hopefulness.
Letting go of resentment gives you enough strength to carry gratefulness.
Letting go of disappointment gives you enough strength to carry joyfulness.
Letting go of avarice gives you enough strength to carry contentedness. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness ~ Lene Andersen

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise. ~ Grenville Kleiser

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit. ~ John C. Calhoun

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Life is for happiness and we feel it with appreciation and kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it. ~ Janet Morris

A lily is a water's diamond. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Let the radiance of light be your guide. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be happy while you have life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death. ~ Sorin Cerin

We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. ~ Archilochos

If people want something to be wrong about you - they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don't belong to people who need to be convinced that they are real diamonds. It's the idiots who need to be convinced of something that they cannot already see. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Greatness is the flower of great adversity. ~ Debasish Mridha

Battles like that ... They look like they come down to one person or one action in one big, flashy moment, but they don't. Major victories come in inches. Each action, each sacrifice, every small act of defiance adds up.. ~ Kaitlin Bevis

Life is a mission but death is the greatest adventure. ~ Debasish Mridha

What if we spoke every word as if it was our last?
Would we hurry to impress the masses with our wisdom?
Would we capture humanity in a poets hurried flow?
Would you even care?
I could speak as if my words were my last.
But you wouldn't remember them until I'm gone. ~ Elizabeth Novak

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic. ~ Chris Robinson

The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom. If ~ Haemin Sunim

A sneeze can never be to far away ~ Benny Bellamacina

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to. ~ Michele Gorman

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Love is the essence and the truth of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet. ~ Larry Crabb

Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word. ~ Monica Johnson

Wisdom never promises that you will be without enemies, but it does enable you to live at peace with them. Those who heed wisdom's voice will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.241 This is part of wisdom's favor, for when a man's ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.242 Wisdom ~ John Crowder

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne's lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward accommodation with an elementary desire for material comfort ... because so many regard this archipelago as preeminently a terrain of the mind and spirit, a locus of biological thought and psychological rejuvenation. The sheer strength of Darwin's insight into the development of biological life gently urges a visitor to be more than usually observant here- to notice, say, that while the thirteen Galapagean finches are all roughly the same hue, it is possible to separate them according to marked differences in the shapes of their bills and feeding habits. ~ Barry Lopez

Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding. This will strengthen our commitment and provide the spiritual reserves to do our best in all situations. ~ Dean M. Davies

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~ Tom Wilson

In life, you achieve nirvana when you learn to love unconditionally. ~ Debasish Mridha