Wisdom Quotes

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Anna Quindlen

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally then to succeed unconventionally.

John Maynard Keynes

Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

Edmund Burke

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.

Brian O'Driscoll

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

George R.R. Martin

I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

E.A. Bucchianeri

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

Melissa Bradley

Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

Mary Shelley

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Sophocles

Thats not a bad word, hate and war are bad words, fuck isnt.

Judy Blume

Sometimes the sweetest wine is squeezed from the grapes of wrath

Jack Gallo

There is nothing more valuable then God's widsom. HIS teachers are sometimes the most unlikely people.

Shannon L. Alder

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Lois Lowry

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

Sarah Jessica Parker

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

Tyler Perry

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson