Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "
Catherine the Great
Loudly
Softly
Wisdom
Related Quotes:
" 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
Struggle
Wisdom
Wise
" As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others. "
Sharon Salzberg
Work
Connection
Wisdom
" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Man
Wise Man
Wise
" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "
Pico Iyer
Dark
Try
Know
" Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow. "
Stephen Colbert
World
Wisdom
Hurt
" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "
Elbert Hubbard
Every Day
Wisdom
Man
" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "
Tom Hopkins
Start
Become
Enough
" Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. "
Alexander Pope
Tis
Whole
Part
" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Privilege
Wisdom
Speak
" We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
Give
Profit
" Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. "
John D. Rockefeller
Life
Matter
Wisdom
" For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. "
Catherine the Great
Feeling
Things
Matter
" Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. "
Henry Van Dyke
Wisdom
Look
Few
" We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. "
Shakti Gawain
Culture
Intuition
Wisdom
" I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. "
Paolo Bacigalupi
Events
World
Wisdom
" What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom. "
Tyler Perry
People
Wisdom
Soul
" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "
Josh Billings
Honesty
Honesty Is
Wisdom
" Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. "
Elizabeth Bibesco
Wisdom
Remembering
Forgetting
" The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom
Only
Man
" Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. "
Oprah Winfrey
Wisdom
Where
Follow
" We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus. "
Cyril Ramaphosa
Deep
Wisdom
Doing
" If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. "
Publilius Syrus
Reach
Lowest
Begin
" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "
Ma Huateng
Need
Wisdom
You
" You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. "
Teri Garr
Wisdom
Yourself
You
" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom
Advice
Yourself
" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "
Felix Frankfurter
Late
Never
Too
" I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. "
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Wisdom
Believe
Choices
" We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. "
James M. Barrie
Never
Know
World
" 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
Community
Progress
Wisdom
" The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. "
Constantin Stanislavski
Lack
Realize
Greatest