Wisdom Quotations Quotes - Page 2

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Fortune hides behind action.

A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Brave cubs become fierce lions.

It is in vain to try and kick the wind.

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

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

Marry the one who laughs when you laugh, and you are clever; marry the one who cries when you cry, and you are intelligent, but marry the one who does both with you, and you are wise.

If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.

A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

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

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

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

A smile is worth dozens of words, but a kiss is worth a thousand.

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

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.

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

Be like the sun; warm to everyone, even your enemies.

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.

A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows.

Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.