Top 100 But Wisdom Quotes

#1. You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

Louise Colet

#2. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.

Anne Gracie

#4. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Esther Dalseno

#5. He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Dejan Stojanovic

#6. the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

Debasish Mridha

#8. A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us - not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

Marva J. Dawn

#9. The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.

Jennifer Edwards

#10. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

Andrew Ramer

#11. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

AVA.

#12. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.

Gary L. Thomas

#13. It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Ibn Ata Allah

#14. The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.

Debasish Mridha

#15. 28.12 But where shall wisdom be found?....

John Gill

#16. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.

Rosen Topuzov

#17. Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Aaron Cohen

#18. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Helen Keller

#19. A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Baruch Spinoza

#20. Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

Sergio De La Pava

#21. You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.

Debasish Mridha

#25. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

#27. Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

Dale E. Turner

#28. Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they reach the age of forty and beyond. A must read for every woman! -- Super Health Nation

Ivy Gilbert

#29. Love is blind but boundless in vision.

Emmanuel Aghado

#30. Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.

Luis Marques

#31. Peace is a new father
Searching for a job
With courage and vigor
With a smile and rigor
But with a great need for money.

Debasish Mridha

#32. It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.

Debasish Mridha

#33. So they put them to flight by Allah's permission. And Dawood slew Jalut, and Allah gave him kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of what He pleased. And were it not for Allah's repelling some men with others, the earth would certainly be in a state of disorder; but Allah is Gracious to the creatures.

Anonymous

#34. Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.

Daphne Du Maurier

#35. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

Sri Aurobindo

#37. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.

Gregory David Roberts

#38. But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees ...

George Eliot

#39. But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.

Paulo Coelho

#40. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucille Ball

#41. Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer

Neal Pirolo

#42. No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.

Samina Ali

#43. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.

Debasish Mridha

#44. Fish rule the waters,
but can be caught using worms.
Birds rule the air,
but can be caught using grain.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the bland leading the bland, private opulence and public squalor.

Amartya Sen

#46. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#47. Pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and his Christ have imparted wisdom (Dial. 7, 3).

Pope Benedict XVI

#48. What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

Greg Laurie

#49. I have read a lot about God and soul, but I have no experience of it; my name is Mind.

Saurabh Sharma

#50. In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

Trent Reznor

#51. Wisdom of the Ages: "New Year" For a kid, the ultimate source of confusion. They say it's a new year, but after the break, you realize you are still in the same class, with the same lousy people.

Matthew D. Heines

#52. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#53. Every plan in which we participate has one constant, ourselves. Not that we are always the same, but that we are always part of the plan. All else comes and goes: friends, parents, possessions, conditions, situations, and associates, leaving only us, ourselves.

Wu Wei

#54. Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#55. It's often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it's a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion.

Renee Carlino

#56. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

#58. People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.

Henry Blackaby

#59. We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom.

Charles De Lint

#60. I'm actually listening to Turner's advice. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but sometimes, if you dig through his words, there are little nuggets of pure idiot wisdom, the sweetest kind there is.

C.M. Stunich

#61. The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

Paulo Coelho

#62. Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

James Truslow Adams

#63. When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom (Prov. 11:2;

Alexander Strauch

#64. Socrates may have thought himself to be the wisest in Athens, but King Solomon was the wisest in the world. With all his philosophy Socrates died a poor man, and with all his wisdom King Solomon died a rich man.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#65. In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing.

Cindy Marcus

#66. 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

#67. To fall in love is easy,
but forgetting is required to be crazy.

Debasish Mridha

#68. A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

Debasish Mridha

#69. You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

Alison Croggon

#70. There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love.

Katja Michael

#71. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Wealth does not always depends on possession, but often depends on perception.

Debasish Mridha

#73. A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Debasish Mridha

#74. Sahasrara is your awareness. When it is enlightened, you get into the technique of the Divine. Now there are two techniques - the technique of the Divine and the technique that you follow. You cannot act as Divine but you can use the Divine power and maneuver it.

Nirmala Srivastava

#75. This is life in a fallen world, where wars come and go, where nations rage and people cry in torment. We must be strong, not in ourselves, but in Him. And trust that His love and His wisdom and His light will see us through.

Janette Oke

#76. Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.

C. JoyBell C.

#77. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.

Debasish Mridha

#78. It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

Charles Caleb Colton

#79. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.

Brent Jones

#80. The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.

Anasazi Foundation

#81. In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations

Wasif Ali Wasif

#82. You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide.
No guide, that is, but courage

Adam Gidwitz

#83. stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

Swami Vivekananda

#84. You find love, not by looking, but by giving away.

Debasish Mridha

#85. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#86. But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song?

Alexandra Ripley

#87. Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available.

Sam Harris

#88. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.

Kenan Malik

#89. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.

Debasish Mridha

#90. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.

Debasish Mridha

#91. Shouldn't those who were born to expect death be the sole subjects of gleaning?" went the popular wisdom. But it was bigotry masquerading as wisdom. Selfishness posing as enlightenment.

Neal Shusterman

#92. Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.

Mary E. DeMuth

#93. Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Mark Twain

#94. I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#95. Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.

Pat Williams

#96. But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

Dominic Smith

#97. Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.

Euginia Herlihy

#98. Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life you give so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#99. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.

Arnold Palmer

#100. Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?

Daniel J. Rice

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