Wisdom Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Ignorance, Use

  "The New Hugo Winners: Award Winning Science Fiction Stories". Volume 1, p. 215, 1989.

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• We learn from history that we do not learn from history

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Time, Thinking, History

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• All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, Allah's manifestation is confirmed.

  Rumi

  Islamic, Night, May

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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Taken, Knowledge

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

  Harlan Coben

  Helping Others, Asking For Help, Sometimes

  Harlan Coben (2012). “Seconds Away (Book Two): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Sweet, Simple

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• O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
  From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
  My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.

  Busiri

  Islamic, Justice, Secret

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• Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

  James Stephens

  Inspirational, Writing, Optimistic

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• We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Literature, Sharing Knowledge

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

  Richard Bach

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Honesty

  "With a Conscience — ‘It’s Not You. It’s Me.’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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• Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Exercise, Community, Anxiety

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• All that counts in life is intention.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Life Is, Intention

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• Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

  Krista Tippett

  Wise, Exercise, Intelligence

  "The Real Environmental Crisis: Lessons From the Green Patriarch" by Krista Tippett, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.

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• To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

  Socrates

  Life, Greek, Honor

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• How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

  Bill Veeck

  Wrinkles, Sage, Wizards

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wise, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 13, 2014

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• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Positive, World Suffering, Intelligence

  Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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  If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

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• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

  Herb Caen

  Cutting, Men, Teeth

  "Quotable Quotes". Reader's Digest, p.144, March 31, 1997.

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• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspiration, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.31, New World Library

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• So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Wise

  'Richard III' (1591) act 3, sc. 1, l. 79

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