Wisdom Quotations Quotes & Sayings

You don't need to know what you want. You only need to know what you don't want ... — Julia Heywood

It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and oeconomical prudence. Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenour of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. — Samuel Johnson

No matter what life throws at you, fight with your eyes wide open to fight a good fight. — Valencia Mackie

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people. — Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never make an important decision with your pants down. — Katie Thayne

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you look in the mirror and see your reflection, your eyes are open; when you look in the mirror and see God, your soul is open. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Today, in a world with instant access to Google, we rely on the electronic web to supply everything we need, from historical facts to word definitions and spellings as well as extended quotations. All of us who use a computer are aware of the shock of inner poverty that we suddenly feel when deprived (by a virus or other disaster) of our mental crutches even just for a day or a week. Plato is right: memory has been stripped from us, and all we possess is an external reminder of what we have lost, enabling us to pretend to a wisdom and an inner life we no longer possess in ourselves.13 — Stratford Caldecott

If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never cut down a tree whose shade you might need tomorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Old words are reborn with new faces. — Criss Jami

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You are a god wrapped in flesh; the divinity you've always been seeking is wrapped within. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life, wherever it leads,
Will always be the same,
It begs for the best of you. — Scott Hastie

Discover the God in Life itself. And one who does, becomes a better version of himself or herself. If the entrepreneur thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better entrepreneur. If the student thinks he or she is the God, he or she will be a better student. If the Scientist thinks that he or she is the God, he or she will be a better Scientist, and so on. — Abhijit Naskar

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The loyal dogs of a dictator are much more dangerous than the dictator himself because a dictator can bite you only through his supporters. Without his dogs, he is nothing! More's the pity, the world history is full of such loyal biters! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The hormonal interplay inside a woman's head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what's important. They mold her desires and values. — Abhijit Naskar

Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wisdom begins in knowing the self. — Abhijit Naskar

Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens. — Abhijit Naskar

Proverbs are potted wisdom. — Charles Buxton

Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing. — Abhijit Naskar

Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To experience peace ~ stop disturbing it! — Julia Heywood

Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All. — Abhijit Naskar

A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Love + truth = strength
Love + knowledge = influence
Love + understanding = power
Love + wisdom = enlightenment — Matshona Dhliwayo

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. — Benjamin Disraeli

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.
A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss. — Sal Martinez

At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The divinity you seek is born with you. — Abhijit Naskar

Clear skies do not promise rain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

For some, the life journey has just started, for some, it is about to end; but in truth, there is no start and there is no end! There is just an ocean of particles playing aimlessly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is foggy; always try to see what lies behind the fog! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security. — Abhijit Naskar

Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available. — Cassandra Duffy

Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern. — Abhijit Naskar

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens

Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now. — Abhijit Naskar

At times, look back towards your ancient days, drink deep from the eternal fountain of wisdom long gone, and then look ahead. — Abhijit Naskar

The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools. — Abhijit Naskar

My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony. — Abhijit Naskar

It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable; forest is a story; birds are a theatre; mountains are a myth; rain is a poem! Nature is literature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom. — James Rozoff

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Marshawn Lynch" Not really shy. Still extremely embarrassed he believed you can't be charged for beating up on large groups of people-as long as you are carrying a football. — Matthew D. Heines

Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. — Julia Heywood

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self. — Abhijit Naskar

The most beautiful temple in the universe is your soul; that is why God wants to dwell in it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. — Chuck Palahniuk

Science works through replication, rectification and modification. But when it comes to religion, people simply tend to accept the theoretical preachers and their claims of historical God experiences without a single question. If there has been one experience in this world in any branch of knowledge, it absolutely follows that that experience will be repeated eternally. If they are not repeated through natural processes, the thinking humanity would have no way but to disprove that such an experience ever occurred in the history. — Abhijit Naskar

When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Patience triumphs over everything. — Abhijit Naskar

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every true scientist is a philosopher, but not every philosopher is a scientist. — Abhijit Naskar