Amazing Wisdom Quotes
“You do not write your life with words...
You write it with actions.
― Patrick Ness
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker
“I think I've discovered the secret of life,
you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“Common sense in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“That's what real love amounts to -
letting a person be what he really is.
Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing.
You get to love your pretence.
It's true, we're locked in an image,
an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks.
They love their chains.
They forget all about who they really are.
And if you try to remind them,
they hate you for it,
they feel like you're trying to steal
their most precious possession.” ― Jim Morrison
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates
“Authority without wisdom
is like a heavy axe without an edge,
fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet
“Never complain, never explain.
Resist the temptation to defend yourself
or make excuses.”
― Brian Tracy
“A wise man
will make more opportunities than he finds.” ― Francis Bacon
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it
tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning is a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes as
an unexpected visitor...
Welcome and entertain them all.
Treat each guest honorably.
The dark thought, the shame,
the malice, meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Rumi
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect,
we should ask him what books he reads.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wisdom cannot be imparted.
Wisdom that a wise man attempts
to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
One can find it, live it, do wonders through it,
but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse
“Half of seeming clever
is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“The only man who never makes mistakes is
the man who never does anything.”― Theodore Roosevelt
“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
― Christopher Paolini
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities
to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking,
"What's in it for me?”
― Brian Tracy
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much,
because if you sacrifice too much
there’s nothing else you can give
and nobody will care for you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I believe that what we become
depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments,
when they aren't trying to teach us.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco
“We seldom realize, for example that our mostprivate thoughts and emotions are not
actually our own. For we think in terms of
languages and images which we did not invent,
but which were given to us by our society.”
