Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. "
Khalil Gibran
Knowledge
Pain
Sun
Related Quotes:
" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "
Ted Turner
Good
Wisdom
Experience
" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Research
Page
Religion
" I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society. "
Masayoshi Son
Revolution
Strength
Wisdom
" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "
Euripides
Wisdom
Success
Reputation
" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wisdom
Character
Think
" God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him. "
Monica Johnson
Life
Wisdom
Why
" We are wiser than we know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wiser
Wisdom
Know
" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
Life
Achievement
Serenity
" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "
Julia Ward Howe
Theology
Wisdom
Me
" When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. "
Morihei Ueshiba
Wisdom
Forward
Opponent
" 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
Business
Time
Fools
" They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. "
Khalil Gibran
Me
Vision
I See
" There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. "
Alexandra Petri
Help
People
Start
" Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. "
Leonard Nimoy
Logic
End
Beginning
" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "
Ellen Glasgow
Important
React
Wisdom
" If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. "
Holly Near
You
Intelligence
Mistakes
" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "
William J. Clinton
Opposing
Values
Wisdom
" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "
Pierre Corneille
Glory
Triumph
Wisdom
" 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
" The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. "
Apollonius of Tyana
Power
Deserve
Wisdom
" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prosperity
World
Wisdom
" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "
Khalil Gibran
Joy
Poetry
Wonder
" If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. "
Lewis Carroll
Going
Wisdom
Will
" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "
Simon Van Booy
Wisdom
Strength
Beginning
" Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. "
Juvenal
Never
Nature
Wisdom
" The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. "
Khalil Gibran
Close
People
Just
" Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Wisdom
Unity
Clarity
" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "
Hugh Jackman
Love
You
Wisdom
" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "
H. L. Mencken
Belief
Democracy
Ignorance
" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "
Stephen Vincent Benet
Had
Because
Thought