Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Teresa

All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

Jim Rohn

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Eknath Easwaran

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

Leo Tolstoy

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Buscaglia

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Leo Buscaglia

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Lew Wallace

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Lewis Carroll

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Joseph Story

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

Pema Chodron

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Pema Chodron

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Pema Chodron

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Peter Cosgrove

Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

Peter Cosgrove

They (the youth of Australia) are out there clamouring in all forms of voice, and they are not so much hedging us older Australians aside as saying, 'For heaven's sake, listen to us and empower us to help drive this country towards a wonderful future.'

Pierre Trudeau

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Rabindranath Tagore

‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

Pythagoras

Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

Pythagoras

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Madame de Stael

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

John Lennon

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

Joyce Meyer

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

Joyce Meyer

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

Joyce Meyer

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

Judith Wright

Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.

Joseph Conrad

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.