723 quotes found
“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best...”
“Time flows away like the water in the river. ”
“He hated when his own advice applied to himself.”
“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“I like places like this," he announced.I like old places too," Josh said, "but what's to like about a place like this?"The king spread his arms wide. "What do you see?"Josh made a face. "Junk. Rust...”
“Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.”
“...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”
“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
“A path is made by walking on it.”
“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”
“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
“Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.”
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
“He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.”
“Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.”
