Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris West

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

Morris West

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

Mignon McLaughlin

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

John Ruskin

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Matthew McConaughey

Wisdom is justified of her children.

Plautus

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

Plautus

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

Plautus

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

Plautus

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Plato

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Plato

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Plato

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Philip Larkin

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

Martin Seligman

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Philip Sidney

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Philip James Bailey

I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.

Peggy Noonan

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Paulo Coelho

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Max Lucado

You don't have wisdom for tomorrow's problems. But you will tomorrow. You don't have resources for tomorrow's needs. But you will tomorrow. You don't have courage for tomorrow's challenges. But you will when tomorrow comes.

Max Lucado

Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

Max Lucado

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

Max Frisch

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Maureen Dowd

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

Marianne Williamson

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Marianne Williamson

The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

Mason Cooley

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.