Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beth Moore

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

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.

Bryce Courtenay

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

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.

Edward Gibbon

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Edmund Waller

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Edgar Lee Masters

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

Benjamin Franklin

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Benjamin Franklin

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Avicenna

Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

Alexander Smith

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Abigail Adams

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

A. Whitney Brown

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

A. S. Byatt

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.

Ludwig von Mises

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.

Samuel Richardson

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

David Jeremiah

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

David Jeremiah

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

David Jeremiah

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

David Jeremiah

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

David Eddings

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

David Wilcock

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.