Quotes about wisdom
wisdom failure bed-of-roses
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it. Hank Aaron
wisdom flow resistance
On the other side of resistance is the flow. Guy Finley
wisdom life-is moments
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
wisdom understanding limits
The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
wisdom sweet self
Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.
wisdom ravens smell
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche
wisdom body needs
There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?
wisdom knowledge limits
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
wisdom plato philosophical
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
wisdom science feelings
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
wisdom flames sage
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
wisdom clouds long
My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
wisdom tired fighting
Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think the trouble with a lot of people is that they work too hard at staying married. They make a business out of it. When you work too hard at a business you get tired; and when you get tired you get grouchy; and when you get grouchy you start fighting; and when you start fighting you're out of business. George Burns
wisdom hurt culture
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. George Bernard Shaw
wisdom firsts life-is
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.
wisdom sweet fun
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way. James Hillman
wisdom persistence important
Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. James Dobson
wisdom life-and-love silly
Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides
wisdom book beer
Leave no stone unturned.
wisdom australia underdog
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich Errol Flynn
wisdom australia want
I want faith; but I am faithless
wisdom australia oysters
Has every oyster a different taste?
wisdom australia people
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
wisdom heart men
Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.
wisdom australia desire
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
wisdom australia firsts
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
wisdom australia inconsistency
If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living
wisdom hurt mistake
It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care
wisdom fashion australia
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion
wisdom biblical australia
I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
wisdom art mean
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
wisdom australia never-trust
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance
wisdom rivers
I am not the river I am the net. Frank Herbert