Wisdom Quotes - Page 30

• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Nature, Autumn, Yellowstone

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Faces, Infinity, Equal

  Leonid Andreyev, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1918). “Lazarus”

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• He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
  [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

  Plautus

  Way, Gains

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• Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

  Victor Hugo

  United, Eloquence

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• Wisdom is the health of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul

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• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Education

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• The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

  George Carlin

  Wise, Memories, Men

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

  Robert Breault

  Tests, Judgment, Knows

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• This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

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• Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

  Laozi

  Motivational, Strength, Buddhist

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• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Common Sense, Age

  God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma (1875)

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• We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

  Bernard Baruch

  Equality, Ships, Boat

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• My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Sarcasm, Agreement

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Lothair”

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• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacred, Communion

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

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• A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, African American, Bent

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

  Plautus

  Reality, Age, Capacity

  "Trinummus". Play by Plautus, Act II, sc. 2, line 88,

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• That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Islamic

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

  Ibn Hazm

  Islamic, World, Rise Above

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• Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

  Rumi

  Spring, Islamic, Soul

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• I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

  Rabia Basri

  Hate, Islamic, Devil

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• The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Falling In Love

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

  Hasan of Basra

  Forgiveness, Islamic, Would Be

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