- “But Johannes had said, “Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it’s something you owe yourself. You are David.” ― Anne Holm, I Am David
- “Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “A New Year is like a new day; with fullness of sacred grace to fulfill the God-given dreams.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. Lin Yutang
- The happy man is one who is freed from both fear and desire because of the gift of reason. Seneca
- “It is wise to worship God.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of others, instead, seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho
- A rational person understands people can act irrationally. An irrational person believes people always act rationally. Angela Jiang
- To act with a minimum of effort and obtain the maximum results, such is the way of the wise man. Zhuangzi
- “Living by faith, living by hope.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Your life is not a simulation; it’s the real game. Play wisely.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
- Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form. Leonardo da Vinci
- “The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge generates strong confidence and a bold spirit that makes you a lion of God. The Creator does not want you to suffer, yet we are being conditioned by society to accept suffering, weak and passive dispositions under the belief that such conditions are favorable by God. Weakness is not a virtue praised by God. How could he desire for you to be weak if he tells us to stand by our conscience? Doing so requires strength. However, there is a difference between arrogance when inflating your ego, and confidence when one truly gets closer to God. One feels large, while the other feels small. Why? Because a man of wisdom understands that he is just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms, and that in the end — we are all connected. And did you not know that the smaller a creature is, the bolder its spirit?” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don’t even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God’s plans undo what I’ve done that’s undoing me.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “To choose not to be part of a team or religion does not make me non-religious; for my religion is Truth and I am very much in love with God. I do not need to align myself with a specific messenger if I already understand God’s message. And the way I think is not considered ‘New Age’, since common sense is not new. So long as you act and speak with love and truth in you, and are good to your fellow man — in that you treat everybody as you would want yourself to be treated, your heart will stand by God regardless of the label you have assigned to your mind.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- Working hard is overrated. Choosing what to work on and who to work on it with is underrated. Naval Ravikant
- There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. John Locke
- “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
- “When the emotions, be it passions or injuries, prevail over the cold judgment of the mind, be the time one loses reason and sinks into primitivism.” ― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates
- Decisions: If you can’t decide, the answer is no. If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality). Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term. Naval Ravikant
- “Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Skin in the Game)
- Your time is the most valuable resource you have. It’s finite in amount, always depleting, and can never be regained back if its lost in any way. Much of success in life can be reduced to who used their time wisely, and who did not. Your life is your time, so protect it as such. Alexander J.A Cortes
- Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. Cato the Elder
- “No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
- No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca (Moral Letters to Lucilius, Amazon book)
- “Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.” ― Francis Bacon
- If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom. African proverb
- “This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man’s artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall’n, quite taint their wit.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night