Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Leonardo da Vinci

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Paul Ricoeur

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Leigh Hunt

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Larry Wall

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Lajos Kossuth

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

Paul Brunton

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

Isaiah Berlin

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Hypatia

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Harry S Truman

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

J. Michael Straczynski

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

Kris Kristofferson

As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Ken Blanchard

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

Michael Azerrad

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

Randy Pausch

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Seamus Heaney

Walk on air against your better judgement.

Michael Leunig

There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

Michael Leunig

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Seth Godin

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Rajneesh

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

Rajneesh

There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

Rajneesh

Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.

Socrates

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Socrates

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.