Wisdom Quote Quotes - Page 2

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

A wound won't heal if you keep touching it.

We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance," said William Shakespeare. How would he know, he knew everything?

One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.

To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache; to appreciate freedom, some had to experience fear.

While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?

The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment.

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.

If you try to test a river’s depths with both feet, you will drown.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.

Do not walk away from death because you came out of it.

The shrewd marry for money, the scheming marry for status, the calculating marry for power, but the wise marry for love.

It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.

The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.

Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls.

An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.

The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.

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When music hits you, you dance.

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Beauty catches your eye, joy seizes your heart, and love captures your soul.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.

If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.

Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.

I have reached this world’s dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge.

I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness.

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity.

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.

We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

The dead only knows their world.

The greatest profit you make in business is not money, but happiness. The greatest riches you give in life are not possessions, but love. The greatest treasures you acquire in life are not jewels, but joy.

Big secrets were catastrophic. However hard you try to hide them, they bob to the surface and you must go over them again and again. They are taken out so often they become worn smooth as a river stone. You have to carry them around you like a baby. The secret grows until you feel like you are a skin that covers it, a thin skin, easily split, ripe

Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.

When birds eat from your hand, they are letting the whole world know that they trust you.

Never set fire to a bridge while you are still crossing it.

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.