Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chanakya

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

Chanakya

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

Edith Wharton

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

David Icke

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

David Hume

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

August Strindberg

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Arnold Palmer

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

William Shakespeare

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

William Shakespeare

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

Only the wounded physician heals.

Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Bill O'Reilly

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

Bertrand Russell

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

Bertrand Russell

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Bernard Baruch

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Charles M. Schulz

There is no greater burden than great potential.

Beth Moore

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love me, love my dog.

Benjamin Hoff

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said."

Bill Withers

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Bill Watterson

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Betty Smith

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

Benjamin Whichcote

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

John Powell

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.