Today's words of wisdom

[Jimbuna]

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

William Penn

[mapuc]

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.”
- Randy Pausch

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

William Congreve

[mapuc]

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

[mapuc]

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Markus

[Dargo]

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. Spanish proverb

[Jimbuna]

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Kiana Tom

[mapuc]

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.”
- Randy Pausch

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

[mapuc]

Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will—then your life will flow well.
Epictetus

Markus

[Jimbuna]

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

William Penn

[mapuc]

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Laurence Sterne

[mapuc]

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
- Francis of Assisi

Markus

[Jimbuna]

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

[Jimbuna]

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Ray Lewis

[mapuc]

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
- Jean de la Bruyere

Markus

[Jimbuna]

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

John Piper

[mapuc]

We must take care of our families wherever we find them.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

Markus

[Jimbuna]

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

[mapuc]

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

James Stephens

[mapuc]

I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others – and you have unity as a people.
Marlon Wayans

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Francis Collins

[Jimbuna]

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Erica Jong

[mapuc]

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
- Anthony Brandt

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

Alain de Botton

[mapuc]

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. - Alex Haley

Markus

[Jimbuna]

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Joseph Prince

[Jimbuna]

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Erma Bombeck

[mapuc]

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
- Earl Nightingale

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Russell M. Nelson

[mapuc]

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
- Cali Rae Turner

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

Doris Lessing

[mapuc]

Our roots say we’re sisters, our hearts say we’re friends.
- Unknown

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Plautus

[Jimbuna]

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

[mapuc]

Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
- Brad Henry

Markus

[mapuc]

Tennis just a game, family is forever.
- Serena Williams

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Robert Duvall

[mapuc]

The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. - Joseph Campbell

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

[Jimbuna]

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.

Maria Montessori

[mapuc]

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
- Albert Camus

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[mapuc]

The most important thing in the world is family and love.
- John Wooden

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Europe's leaders need to sit down with Socrates for a night; a life unexamined is not worth living. We have to remember that, as he says, the pursuit of wealth should never be at the expense of wisdom.

Bettany Hughes

[mapuc]

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
- Louisa May Alcott

Markus

[Aktungbby]

99% of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makesthe jukebox play!-Willie Nelson

[Jimbuna]

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[mapuc]

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
- Adrian Grenier

Markus

[Jimbuna]

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

[mapuc]

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
- Meister Eckhart

Markus

[Jimbuna]

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

[mapuc]

Never make a companion equal to a brother.
- Hesiod

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

[mapuc]

Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
- Ralph Marston

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

Abdullah II of Jordan

[mapuc]

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand
- Irish Blessing

Markus

[Jimbuna]

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

Paul Ricoeur

[mapuc]

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
Unknown

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Anne Lamott

[Jimbuna]

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Thomas Huxley

[mapuc]

Happiness is not a destination, it is the way of life
Unknown

Markus

[mapuc]

The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. - Joseph Campbell

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[mapuc]

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
- Clayton Christensen

Markus

[bweiss]

“Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die!”


(Unknown)

[Jimbuna]

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

William Samuel Johnson

[mapuc]

He who is brave is free.
- Seneca

Markus

[Sean C]

To exist is to experience suffering.
Suffering arises from attachment.
All things are impermanent, including suffering.
The way to overcome suffering is through The Noble Eightfold Path.

-Siddhartha Gautama (a.k.a. The Buddha)

[mapuc]

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
- Angela Schwindt

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Maria Montessori

[mapuc]

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
- Albert Camus

Markus

[mapuc]

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.
- Abraham Lincoln

Markus

[mapuc]

You will find meaning in life by doing what YOU think is important, not what others say.
- Unknown

Markus

[mapuc]

Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

Markus

[Jimbuna]

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

John Webster

[Jimbuna]

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Henry Miller

[mapuc]

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
- Sharon Begley

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Chris Christie

[mapuc]

Life taught me love is risky. Death taught me to love even more.
- Maxime Lagacé

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Robert Duvall

[mapuc]

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde

Markus

[Platapus]

One of my favorites


There are no great men, there are only great challenges, which ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.


William Frederick Halsey

[Jimbuna]

To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.

Thiruvalluvar

[mapuc]

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
- Mary Pickford

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

[mapuc]

I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
- Steven Spielberg

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Paton

[mapuc]

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Chen Shui-bian

[mapuc]

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

Rachel Dratch

[mapuc]

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Tom Brown, Jr.

[mapuc]

You and you alone are the only person who can live the life that can write the story that you were meant to tell.
- Kerry Washington

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Lee Hsien Loong

[mapuc]

We are here to make another world.
- W. Edwards Deming

Markus

[Jimbuna]

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Cyril Connolly

[mapuc]

It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.
- Ella Fitzgerald

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

James Stephens

[mapuc]

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Bertrand Russell

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet

[mapuc]

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don't pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom.

John B. Goodenough

[mapuc]

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
- Augustine of Hippo

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[mapuc]

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Markus

[Jimbuna]

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

[mapuc]

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein

Markus

[mapuc]

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
- Thomas J. Watson

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Keith Miller

[Jimbuna]

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

[mapuc]

A symptom of wisdom is curiosity. The evidence is calmness and perseverance. The causes are experimentation and understanding.
- Maxime Lagacé

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Avery Brooks

[BetaWilhelm]

“Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.”
— Norm MacDonald

[Jimbuna]

Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom - that's important.

Lights

[mapuc]

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Seneca

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

Sam Houston

[mapuc]

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
- Michel de Montaigne

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Edward Young

[Jimbuna]

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Sam Houston

[mapuc]

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.
- Pythagoras

Markus

[Jimbuna]

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Antonin Scalia

[mapuc]

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.
- Witold Gombrowicz

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[Aktungbby]

He who casts his 'pearls of wisdom' before swine...must love pork. -Felipe Vicente Dali

[mapuc]

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.
- Diogenes

Markus

[Aktungbby]

^'Tis oft the middle-finger!:arrgh!:-Felipe Vicente Dali https://media.istockphoto.com/id/161351449/vector/middle-finger-emoticon.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=is&k=20&c=glOLTL6PMkTVR-43wElxo4fT9Fwt7qFAD0Ui9aqxPTY=

[Jimbuna]

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

Marilyn Ferguson

[mapuc]

Never say no twice if you mean it.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Octavio Paz

[mapuc]

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
- Buddha

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead

[mapuc]

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
- Hermann Hesse

Markus

[Jimbuna]

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

[Jimbuna]

Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

[mapuc]

A lot of wisdom is just realizing the long-term consequences of your actions. The longer term you’re willing to look, the wiser you’re going to seem to everybody around you.
- Naval Ravikant

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

[mapuc]

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
- Leo Tolstoy

Markus

[Jimbuna]

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Sophocles

[mapuc]

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
- Leonard Nimoy

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Jenny Shipley

[mapuc]

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

Lactantius

[mapuc]

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

[mapuc]

A weak reaction is to rush things. A strong reaction is to go slow and steady.
- Maxime Lagacé

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

John Quincy Adams

[mapuc]

The best words are the ones you are ready for.
- Maxime Lagacé

Markus

[Jimbuna]

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Walter Pater

[mapuc]

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust

Markus

[Jimbuna]

When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.

Peter Hitchens

[mapuc]

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
- Kahlil Gibran

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jean Giraudoux

[mapuc]

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
- David Elton Trueblood

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

[Aktungbby]

Fate is born with us; no one escapes it..-Homer The Illiad

[mapuc]

The wise know they are fools. Fools think they are wise.
- Maxime Lagacé

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Erma Bombeck

[mapuc]

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
- M. Scott Peck

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

T. B. Joshua

[mapuc]

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

Pat Robertson

[mapuc]

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.
- Paul Engle

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

William Congreve

[mapuc]

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
- Norman Cousins

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Tom Brown, Jr.

[mapuc]

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
- Thomas Moore

Markus

[Eisenwurst]

If the World's a Chessboard and all the pieces have been set up against you, and your opponent is a smug smartarse....you kick over the table and don't play their scripted game.

[Jimbuna]

If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace.

James Gleick

[mapuc]

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus

Markus

[Jimbuna]

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Erik Erikson

[mapuc]

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
- Gerald Brenan

Markus

[Eisenwurst]

Don't spread Negativity. It influences Public Opinion, and also influences people that have to make important decisions affecting thousands, sometimes millions of lives. :yep:

[Jimbuna]

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau

[mapuc]

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
- Sophocles

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Pindar

[mapuc]

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
- Zhuangzi

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Alex Grey

[mapuc]

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
- Horace

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

[mapuc]

We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

Jay Griffiths

[mapuc]

True wisdom is remembering that in the end, no matter what, everything will be fine.
- Maxime Lagacé

Markus

[Jimbuna]

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Herbie Hancock

[mapuc]

The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.
- Paulo Coelho

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

[mapuc]

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of wisdom.
- Havelock Ellis

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Kindness is wisdom.

Philip James Bailey

[mapuc]

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
- Herbert Hoover

Markus

[Jimbuna]

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

Robert Redford

[Aktungbby]

True wisdom: 'Cause we're all dirty and hairy: https://media1.tenor.com/m/olTU7YK95bwAAAAd/clint-eastwood-magnum-force.gif

[mapuc]

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
- Plutarch

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

[mapuc]

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel de Montaigne

Markus

[Jimbuna]

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucille Ball

[mapuc]

It’s better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people. It’s better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn’t matter. It’s better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain.
- James Clear

Markus

[Sean C]

It’s better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn’t matter.


I disagree. Sometimes, working on things that don't matter brings me happiness. And ... does anything, that anyone does on this pale blue dot, really matter in the grand scheme of things? Or does it all matter simply because we want it to and it makes us happy?


Doing things for no reward is sometimes a reward per se.


Cheers, my friends!

[Jimbuna]

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

[mapuc]

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Arianna Huffington

[mapuc]

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
- William Blake

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau

[mapuc]

Don’t try to become, let go of who you’re not.
- Maxime Lagacé

Markus

[Jimbuna]

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

[mapuc]

The truest sayings are paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

[mapuc]

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[mapuc]

One principle eliminates a thousand decisions.
- Johnny Uzan

Markus

[Jimbuna]

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Robert E. Lee

[mapuc]

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
- George Santayana

Markus

[Jimbuna]

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

John Wycliffe

[mapuc]

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.
- William Arthur Ward

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France

[mapuc]

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

[mapuc]

Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to”.
- Lao Tzu

Markus

[Jimbuna]

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Laura Marling

[Jimbuna]

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

[mapuc]

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther

Markus

[Platapus]

Nothing is impossible
Even the word itself is spelled I'm Possible -- Audrey Hepburn

[Jimbuna]

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

John Wycliffe

[mapuc]

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
- Rumi

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France

[Eisenwurst]

"Beware the Ides of March"

"Bah humbug", says Big Julie.

[mapuc]

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Markus

[Jimbuna]

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

[Jimbuna]

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[mapuc]

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Christopher Lasch

[mapuc]

One day your life will flash before your eyes.
Make sure it's worth watching.
- Gerard Way

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Avery Brooks

[mapuc]

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Søren Kierkegaard

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[mapuc]

He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.
- Albert Einstein

Markus

[Jimbuna]

It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.

Gord Downie

[mapuc]

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[mapuc]

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

Markus

[Jimbuna]

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucille Ball

[mapuc]

We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.
- Bruce Lee

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Kay Redfield Jamison

[mapuc]

Listen to the people who are most quiet.
- Sahil Lavingia

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

[mapuc]

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
- Arthur Rimbaud

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

Emile Zola