Wise Quotations Quotes

A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper.

It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you.

To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.

Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth.

With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.

Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter.

Knowledge is strength, understanding is mastery, and wisdom is power.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Only fools are born wise.

If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.

You are surrounded by ignorance, savagery and fanaticism. You live in a society where everyone thinks he/she knows about everything in the whole universe. If you find yourself among those intellectual idiots, then being good and humble may give rise to doubts in your mind about your own ideas. So, you must first learn to distinguish between real and shallow intellect. Then, as a self- preservation tactic, you need to let your pretence of arrogance grow as big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite.

There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.

Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.

One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.

Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.

Every word that comes out of my neurons is to make humanity see that there are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart. My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony.

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.

When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.

If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.

If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight.

You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

Brave cubs become fierce lions.

Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.

Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.

Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.

Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

The farther you venture into the forest the more valuable the fruit.

Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.

If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.

A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one’s courage; and the soul, in proportion to one’s love.

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

​Let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the results will follow.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion.

A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.

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