Sarcastic Wisdom Quotes

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

I felt that way not because I never once discovered any palpable hard young throat to crush among the masculine mutes that flickered somewhere in the background; but because it was to me "overwhelmingly obvious" (a favorite expression with my aunt Sybil) that all varieties of high school boys - from the perspiring nincompoop whom "holding hands" thrills, to the self-sufficient rapist with pustules and a souped-up car - equally bored my sophisticated young mistress. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

Traveling solo is an incredible – life changing – journey, which I can recommend anyone to undertake. It's the fear of being alone that prevents many people from daring to take the step to go on that journey. But as with many things, within that fear you'll discover the greatest triumphs. ~ Jellis Vaes

We all have the same root, and are connected...
To tap into this connectedness we must go within. ~ Summerlyn Guthrie

He was leaning back against the door watching me with hooded eyes. He wasn't throwing sarcastic barbs at me or ignoring me, he was just watching me. ~ Jay Crownover

I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura. ~ Anton Chekhov

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. ~ Idries Shah

Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back. ~ Umar II

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone? ... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet

Live if you want to be knowledgeable. Love if you want to be wise. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Think your best thoughts every moment, every day. You will be the best person on the way. ~ Debasish Mridha

Only one spirit, either good or bad, can operate at a time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Have a great purpose and do what you must to achieve it. ~ Debasish Mridha

POWER WITHOUT WISDOM IS WASTED ENERGY ~ KAMILAH WILLACY

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. ~ John Maynard Keynes

...you do yourself no favour if you let your sense of doubt-mistrust-scepticism to rise up within you to the point where you must look every gift horse in the mouth... ~ Isabella Koldras

Do all the work you can, there is enough rest in the grave. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. ~ Venerable Bede

I have yet to discover a source of information, practical advice, and hope that compares to the wisdom found in the Bible. ~ Billy Graham

The Kena Upanishad says that the Self "shines through the mind and senses," which is a poetic way of saying that it is the power of the Self which allows the mind and senses to function. So the eternally conscious Self is what makes us conscious. Essentially, it is light.
At times when our inner vision becomes pure enough to let us see through the layers of psychic debris that thickens our consciousness and make it opaque, we realize that everything is actually made of light. We understand that we are light, that the world is light, and that light is the essence of everything. This is why so many people's experience of touching the Self are experiences of light - visions, inner luminosity, or profound and crystalline clarity. ~ Sally Kempton

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Drugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. ~ Idries Shah

Youth is wasted on the young. If it was me, you can be sure I wouldn't be lazing around thinking I had the right woman. I'd make damn sure and then do whatever it took to make sure she thought the same, too. ~ Avery Flynn

O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals ... ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Life is your greatest asset. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Focus on joy, not on hurt or fear.
The earth will dance, peace to share. ~ Debasish Mridha

This golden droid has been a friend, 'tis true,/ And yet I wish to still his prating tongue!/ An imp, he calleth me? I'll be reveng'd,/ And merry pranks aplenty I shall play/ Upon this pompous droid C-3PO!/ Yet not in language shall my pranks be done:/ Around both humans and droids I must/ Be seen to make such errant beeps and squeaks/ That they shall think me simple. Truly, though,/ Although with sounds obilque I speak to them, I clearly see how I shall play my part,/ And how a vast rebellion shall succeed/ by wit and wisdom of a simple droid. [R2-D2] ~ Ian Doescher

Plus, I was about to spend six weeks with Christian Ozera. He was sarcastic, difficult, and made jokes about everything. Actually, he was a lot like me.
It was going to be a long six weeks. ~ Richelle Mead

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it. ~ Bayazid Bastami

Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication. ~ Sunday Adelaja

In their innocence and wisdom, in their connection to the earth and its most ancient rhythms, animals show us a way back to a home they have never left. ~ Susan Chernak McElroy

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I should be as free as another [with sight and hearing]. Its people, scenery, manners, joys, and tragedies should be living tangible interpreters of the real world. The lecture halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom... But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined. Many of the dreams that had delighted my young inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures – solitude, books and imagination – outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to pref ~ Helen Keller

Forever is as troublesome and as emotive a word can be, withholding infinite happiness, infinite hope, infinite grief and infinite desire. ~ Ashutosh Gupta

The absent are easily refuted. ~ C.S. Lewis

We are raised to believe (on the surface, at least) that us humans only have so much love to give, and that it comes in a standard round unit: one. After all, we associate love with the heart, and, well, you've either got a whole heart, or you're dead, period. You can't, common wisdom goes, just run around dividing that one heart up freely; to claim to do so means that you're either a fool, or you're dividing up something that is dead. ~ Anthony Ravenscroft

In the depth of silence
be speechless
to listen the song of life,
song of creation of life,
primordial song.
Be silent, and listen to your heart.
Can you hear
The song of life,
The song of love,
The song of creation? ~ Debasish Mridha

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy. ~ Nelson Mandela

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. ~ Confucius

A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Because of dreams, life is worth living. ~ Debasish Mridha

Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave. ~ Charles Bukowski

It is impossible for light to hide in the dark. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

He strains his conversation through a cigar. ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie