Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Ambrose Bierce

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

Ambrose Bierce

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Ambrose Bierce

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Alice Walker

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Alice Walker

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

Anne Lamott

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Aesop

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Aesop

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Aesop

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Aesop

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Aesop

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Aesop

It pays to be prepared.

Aesop

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Aesop

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop

Little by little does the trick.

Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

Alexander Pope

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Alexander Pope

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alex Haley

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Albert Schweitzer

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

Douglas MacArthur

He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

Doug Larson

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Dora Russell

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Colleen McCullough

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

Dalai Lama

My enemy is my greatest teacher.