Wisdom Wise Quotes

Eternity, sacred time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Wisdom is spiritual discipline. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Many people die long before their departure date,
Through ignorance of living a life they never wanted to be apart of but are to scared to change. ~ Nikki Rowe

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. ~ Heraclitus

Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why ... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays. ~ Nikki Rowe

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The human body is not necessarily a human being. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The bond of love, we unite the world. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. ~ Abraham H. Maslow

Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm ~ Munia Khan

New exit, new entry! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. ~ James Taranto

Money cannot buy life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The duel may go on for a long time, but self-defense often wins over self-reproach. ~ Pawan Mishra

A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to serve humans. A preacher is not to preach humans, but to serve humans. Any individual who possesses higher intellect than the general population, is meant to be at the forefront of service to humanity. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ~ Arthur Helps

I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't You Get it? This very second you could be doing something you love and dream about doing. So do it! Now! ~ Anonymous

Schooling gives you knowledge,
but education makes you wise. ~ Debasish Mridha

Wisdom comes from reflection. ~ Deborah Day

Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things. ~ Pawan Mishra

Once we were young, now we are adult. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks. ~ Criss Jami

It's not a crime to feel sad, down or depressed. Moving through difficult feelings is an essential part of living life authentically. Though society would have us believe that when we are sad, we need to smack a silly smile on our face and pretend everything is okay. Problems arise when we repress, deny or bury these feelings. We need to know when it's time to seek help and support, to avoid becoming overwhelmed by these types of emotion. Life is a bittersweet symphony, we need to hear every instrument and listen to every note. ~ Jaeda DeWalt

Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble. ~ Pawan Mishra

The highest creed is Universal Acceptance. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The wise pause; the foolish react. ~ Todd Stocker

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Wisdom solves almost anything ~ Sunday Adelaja

For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad. ~ Anne Holm

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love is the strongest soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Imagination is a confident hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is non-flammable soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world. ~ Munia Khan

You never want one thing at any given moment of life. Your mind always comes up with at least two choices. If your limbic system wins, the choice you make seems to be pleasurable at first but in the long run ends up being the wrong one. And if your prefrontal cortex wins the choice you make may appear rough at first, but in the long run it turns out to be the right one. ~ Abhijit Naskar

You cannot be both in love and a wise person. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly. ~ Nabil N. Jamal

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom. ~ Mark B. Cohen

Revive, Rekindle, Rejoice. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. ~ Hedy Lamarr

there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separate the two. ~ AVA.

The most dangerous thing we can do with intelligence is to let it speak without being both chastised and informed by wisdom. For if we let it speak without the constraints and forbearance of wisdom, we will destroy ourselves. And in doing so, we will be so caught up in our 'intelligence' that we won't even realize that it's 'us' that's killing 'us. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change.
Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives.
I would rather be wise, than nieve. ~ Nikki Rowe

Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw. ~ Hesiod

I stopped remembering the past and started visualising my future, the only thing left I could hold onto was hope; that the courage I have found along the way, is what will see me through. ~ Nikki Rowe

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. ~ Isaac Asimov

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two - because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit. ~ Pawan Mishra

My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom. ~ Samuel Morse

The moment in time is unrepeatable. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom. ~ Jon Steele

You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive! ~ Anamika Mishra

The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom. ~ David Hume

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet. ~ Munia Khan

I used to see dolphins as cute,
Smart and funny sea animals.
I know now that they're astute,
Divine beings, clever mammals. ~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes. ~ Roy Bennett

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom) ~ Edith Hamilton

Things are more like they are now ... than they have EVER been before! ~ Uncle Arnie Mamath

Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom. ~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Bitterness block the sacred blessings. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just think about this: haven't we been going just to and fro? The whole world rather. Years back, it was good to take vitamin supplements and today they are considered hampering body's natural immune. Sometime back, people were desperate to land up in high paying jobs, today there is a big entrepreneurship fad. Back in years, it was a pride to be settled in the city, now people are giving up all responsibilities to settle at a peaceful country side.
What are we all really doing? We are moving from pillar to post, forward and backward on theories. We are all as confused as the next person. And unfortunately, we are all going to leave this world with barely being able to decipher much. ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature. ~ Abhijit Naskar

One is not born wise; one becomes it. ~ Matthieu Ricard

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. ~ Edgar Cayce

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant. ~ Seneca.

The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be. ~ Jaeda DeWalt

When I, awoke, they called me crazy;
But only those, whom were still asleep. ~ Nikki Rowe

Sapiens means wise or sapient... Wise means acceptance, not differentiation. Wise means helping, not fighting. Wise means assimilation, not destruction. Wise means harmony and peace, not dissension. ~ Abhijit Naskar

With wisdom comes the rare ability to tell whether or not trying to change someone's mind would be a waste of time. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so. ~ Dan Groat

Sin drains strength.
Righteousness gives strength. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We all have a vision, a dream to hope for.
Some chase it and some wish upon it..
Who do you think, wins?
the chaser finds ways to create it, regardless of the fight, the wisher finds way to excuse it, because courage doesn't fill their hearts. ~ Nikki Rowe

Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely ~ Sunday Adelaja

Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one's, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind. ~ Roshan Sharma

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained. ~ Ricky Maye

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

Your life is not a simulation; it's the real game. Play wisely. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it. ~ Anne Holm

Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you. ~ Nikki Rowe

Never let anyone put you in chains. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. ~ Alfred Tennyson

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. ~ Paulo Coelho

He exuded wisdom-even the wisest ... were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights. ~ Aprilynne Pike

The sacredness of Christmas: glory to God in the highest holy heavens, peace on earth and goodwill to all people. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth. ~ Criss Jami

It is the duty of every wise person to seek out people with potential and freely guide them on the path of wisdom. By doing so, the wise leaders of the future are born, and the world will have a chance to mend itself. ~ Charbel Tadros