Wise Quotations Quotes - Page 2

Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.

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.

Everything that humans have achieved until now, were once merely an imagination in someone’s head.

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.

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.

If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.

A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.

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.

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

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.

The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.

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.

No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.

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 quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

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

A wolf only attends a rabbit’s funeral to eat its young.

Say, you teach a five year old child a few verses from the Bible. And after memorizing them, he will become a part scholar in Christian theology. But that won’t make him realize what Jesus actually meant when he said 'love thy neighbor'.

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

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.

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

Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern.

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.

Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.

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.

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

A large vessel will never fill up no matter how small the leak is.

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

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

Do not despise the water droplets that you receive, soon it will be a river.

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.

Truth, by all means is the ultimate reward for all the sufferings of the human mind that often compel even the strongest of characters to get down on his or her knees.

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.

Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens.

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

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.

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.

There is a natural magic in the feeling of love that has been nourished by Mother Nature through millions of years. It can make you reach the zenith of your true potential. It can awaken your mind towards your deepest powers, and make you endowed with tools of greatness that you can never access in an ordinary state of mind.

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