Visdom Quotes & Sayings

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.' — Parker Palmer

I don't believe in psychology. — Bobby Fischer

God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

You'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together. — Charles Dickens

Maybe I was in love with the idea of love. — Shay Savage

Unlike motivation, willpower can be strengthened like a muscle. — Stephen Guise

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. — Luciano Pavarotti

Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently. — Wilhelm Reich

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. — Philip Guedalla

America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless ... but now the security of the world is threatened by Kim Jong-il, a nerdy, pompadoured, platform shoe-wearer who looks like something you'd put on the end of your child's pencil. — Jon Stewart

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you. — O. Henry