Proverbs Wisdom Quotes

Pay attention to proverbs. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord ~ Lydia Brownback

I like the old wisdom
puns, riddles, spells, proverbs. ~ Mason Cooley

who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.. ~ German Proverb

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

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom. ~ Tom Stoppard

The most dangerous enemy is that enemy when your ally becomes enemy ~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

We have been counseled to "seek ... out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:7.) But in getting wisdom and getting knowledge, above all we should "get understanding." It is important to learn a profession, learn a trade. That applies not only to the young men, but it applies to you young women as well. You girls should place yourselves in a position to be self-supporting and independent in the event that tragedy or an emergency comes, for emergencies have come and will continue to come. ~ Henry D. Taylor

It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. ~ Ric Keller

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empathy is the ability that allows us to be useful creatures on this planet; without empathy, we are a waste of oxygen in this world. Without empathy, we are lower than animals. Empathy is the ability that allows us the perception of things around us, outside of ourselves; so a person without empathy is a limited human being, someone who will only live half of a life. ~ C. JoyBell C.

We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success. ~ Euginia Herlihy

The best gift your true friends will ever give you is carry your casket with respect. So be good to those you consider exceptional. ~ Robert Kodingo

Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes? ~ Luis Marques

When we are kind and passionate to others, we become compassionate, this is one of the bases for uni-consciousness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Purity isn't the denial of pleasure, it's choosing the pleasures of God over the pleasures of the world ~ Emmanuel Igunbor

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. ~ Socrates

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego. ~ Frederick Lenz

You really don't want to be his/her first love. They need to have first fallen in love with Jesus. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet. ~ Herman Melville

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. ~ Aldous Huxley

Peace is not the absence of poverty
But the presence of love for beauty ~ Debasish Mridha

Words that comes out of your mouth describes you character and personalty ~ Beta Metani'Marashi

We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for all humankind. He gave us a good earth. Let us serve him by helping to preserve it for our children. 'A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children' (Proverbs 13:22 ). ~ Paul Brand

To tell others that
It is a rumor
Will not do.
When your own heart asks
How will you respond? ~ Gosen Wakashu

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times. ~ Leo Tolstoy

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Could he really want a relationship with a woman who was at the point in life of trading beauty for wisdom? ~ Heather Blanton

When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple ~ Guruji Naushir

Love is enduring spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is a great contentment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live. ~ Elizabeth Smart

Service is the highest form of worship. ~ Debasish Mridha

Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.

The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king's decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.

When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.

In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: 'Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.'

And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such 'wisdom', why not allow him to rule the country?

The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern u ~ Paulo Coelho

Saying nothing sometimes says the most. ~ Emily Dickinson

The only reason I am living is to express my love for you and for the universe. ~ Debasish Mridha

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty. ~ Rumi

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I say this mindful of the enormous evils ... But love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed of wisdom. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

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

It is my duty to give back with interest as much as I borrowed from this world. ~ Debasish Mridha

Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all. ~ William Shakespeare

There are quite a few things that the devil could tempt me with ... I could be tempted by youth if I was allowed to hold on to all the wisdom that I've gotten. In everything, not just sports. In life. In acting. I'd be tempted by youth only so I could continue doing it a little longer. ~ George Clooney

When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all! ~ Charles R. Swindoll

If you drop a gold coin in mud, it does not lose its value. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Few promises are more circled in my Bible than Proverbs 16:9: In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. ~ Mark Batterson

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever. ~ Debasish Mridha

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words. ~ Chanakya

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ~ William Penn

Positive thinking is sword of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ignore the pithiness, look for the goodness.
Fill the emptiness with love and kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

you have learned, and you claim that you know, and yet you live like an ignorant. ~ Nurudeen Ushawu

Ignorance has no friend, intelligence has no enemy, and wisdom is everyone's friend. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom. ~ Albert Einstein