Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ken Blanchard

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

Omar N. Bradley

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Sharif

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Oprah Winfrey

You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

Olivia Newton-John

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

Olivia Newton-John

I live my life in gratitude.

Oliver Goldsmith

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Oliver Goldsmith

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

Oliver Goldsmith

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

Marcus Terentius Varro

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is participation in power.

Kenny Rogers

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Smith

Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind.

Kenny Smith

People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.

Mark Twain

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Mark Twain

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Mark Twain

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.

Pindar

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Phillip Adams

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.