- Success is the result of right decisions. Right decisions are the result of experience. Experience is the result of wrong decisions. Thibaut
- “Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life’s seasons.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- Creative ideas will come to you in the quiet moment in between your thoughts. You are wiser than you think. Be still and see what happens. Haemin Sunim (See also: creativity quotes)
- “If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- Acquiring wisdom is a moral duty as well as a practical one. Shane Parrish
- “Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.” ― Nikki Rowe
- Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. 14th Dalai Lama
- “Hardships refine a man to what he ought to be.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne
- “Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot…Where’s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here’s the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it’s the good kind.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
- 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
- People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
- My path is the path of stopping, the path of enjoying the present moment. It is a path where every step brings me back to my true home. It is a path that leads nowhere. I am on my way home. I arrive at every step. Thich Nhat Hanh (See also: spiritual quotes)
- “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
- “Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
- It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely. Ambrose
- 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
- Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. Lin Yutang
- “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
- “If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
- Ignore what won’t impact your life. @orangebook_
- “A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- “The wise will make holiness and purity their priority.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi
- “Is the Starwife a witch?” asked Firgil. “Is any wise female a witch? Just because they have been blessed by the Green and given strange and beautiful gifts, does not mean they use them for evil purposes.” ― Robin Jarvis, Whortle’s Hope
- Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory. Osho
- Idiots want to be smart, smart people try not to be idiots. @AmuseChimp
- Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
- What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right. Albert Einstein
- “Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.” ― Roy T. Bennett