Top 100 Earth Wisdom Quotes
#1. Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Johan Huizinga
#2. When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#3. I am drunk with love; love is my drug.
I am the rain and love is my earth.
Debasish Mridha
#4. 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
#5. Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
Madame De Stael
#6. One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
Alice Walker
#7. I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
William O. Douglas
#8. How earthy old people become
moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
Buddha
#12. We came to this world with love and hope to bloom like a flower, to beautify this garden we call earth, and spread the fragrance of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#13. I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.
Alice Walker
#14. Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.
Raheel Farooq
#15. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.
Anasazi Foundation
#16. At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.
Anasazi Foundation
#17. We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.
Molly Friedenfeld
#18. Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.
Anasazi Foundation
#20. Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.
Jean Houston
#21. What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.
Abhijit Naskar
#23. There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.
Chanakya
#24. If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.
Carl Jung
#25. And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.
Carl Sagan
#26. In order to reach his destiny and have dominion over the earth, man has to get wisdom.
Sunday Adelaja
#27. And Moses said, If you should disbelieve, you and whoever is on the earth entirely - indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.
Quran 8 42
#29. The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. these words of wisdom, so rarely understood: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men.
Jules Verne
#31. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
Helen Simonson
#32. If there were not a time frame on earth, the devil could have become an eternal lord on earth.
Sunday Adelaja
#33. There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,
No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,
Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory
Douglas M. Laurent
#35. It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
Richard Dawkins
#36. I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.
James Lee Burke
#37. You are put on this earth to fulfill your purpose and that is to love, live, serve, share, care, and be happy on the way of life.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
Homer
#39. Occupy the earth with the multiplication of yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Money Chiefs, loud and long notes are not songs. Silent snow wets Earth, seeds grow, flowers' honey purses seek neither wealth nor power, and the forest's quiet wisdom needs no wind to blow.
Frederic M. Perrin
#41. If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.
Nirmala Srivastava
#42. Beauty of heaven and earth resides in our heart and it is the joyful reflection of the soul.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
Anasazi Foundation
#44. We are the dancers in a great play. The Earth is the stage; the sun gives rays.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.
Rumi
#46. We can choose not to remember this day, but bones have strong memories. And earth never forgets.
Magaly Guerrero
#47. A statement made from the heart has an aroma, it has lights, it has earth and
sun and moon. It is colorful and it grasps the attention of those around you,
like the sunset.
Beth Johnson
#48. Flowers are the poetry of the earth we are supposed to love and understand.
Debasish Mridha
#49. They Thought Themselves only a step lower than the gods,
proud in their power over heaven and earth.
They grew strong in their knowledge
but weak in their wisdom,
craving more and still more power,
crushing the defenseless.
_ Morrighan Book of Holy Text,Vol. IV
Mary E. Pearson
#50. Was that what it was all about? To know everything - the ultimate quest of the philosopher, to comprehend the universe from the highest heaven down to the dirt upon the Earth. And Wolfdon desired to go there too, wherever "there" might be.
Mary-Jean Harris
#51. What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.
Linda Hogan
#52. You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.
Rick Warren
#53. One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.
Leo Tolstoy
#55. The shift of awareness is most important key to the road of peace. Peace sought by single nation or religion will inevitably generate conflict. Only peace centered on encompassing the whole Earth can lead us to the "promised land" of ancient wisdom.
Ilchi Lee
#56. Let us love each other, then appreciate each other, then express our gratitude to each other; we will create heaven on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.
Auliq Ice
#58. Nothing lives long but the mountains and the earth. All the rest is air.
Chris Galford
#59. Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily.
Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on Earth
Daniel Peter Buckley
#60. If God the Father and God the Son use light, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom to function on the earth, it means that is the greatest power in existence.
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.
Anasazi Foundation
#62. There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.
Anasazi Foundation
#63. Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].
Plato
#64. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.
Anasazi Foundation
#65. Let's love everyone without judging them, then we will find the heaven in earth.
Debasish Mridha
#66. There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
Al-Shafi'i
#67. With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.
James Hutton
#68. Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.
Morihei Ueshiba
#69. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.
Anasazi Foundation
#70. My grandfather told me all the world's problems come from us thinking we own pieces of the Earth, but we're pieces of her. Wilfrid
Eleni Papanou
#72. If you expose the wrong then also preserve the right.you are d salt of d earth
Ikechukwu Joseph
#73. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)
KoKo Nervelli
#74. We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.
Nirmala Srivastava
#75. Forgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#76. We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#78. As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#79. The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Frederick William Robertson
#80. An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message.
Rashmit Kalra
#82. Trees and flowers are the gift of earth for the sun to see, for his light and endless love for eternity.
Debasish Mridha
#83. Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.
Jose Saramago
#84. The underworld, the old world, is the womb that gave birth to humanity. The journey from under the earth is the journey from ignorance to wisdom.
Carrie Vaughn
#85. The fewer plants and animals we are able to recognize as individuals - recognize well enough to name - the more alienated we have come to feel from ourselves, the Earth and God, the Source.
Linda Bender
#86. Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.
J. William Fulbright
#87. Make peace with yourself, and both heaven and earth will make peace with you.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#88. Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
Jasper Fforde
#89. Gratitude is the expression of love for the earth and for the humanity, for the abundance of life and its untold beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Life is the most beautiful dance on the most beautiful stage we call Earth.
Debasish Mridha
#92. When someone loves you, you are living in the most beautiful place in the earth, in the beauty of his or her mind. So enjoy it, even if it lasts for a moment.
Debasish Mridha
#93. When we will learn to emulate the peacefulness of a tree, love of a flower, the earth will be a garden of love and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#94. One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.
Charles Eisenstein
#95. We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#96. Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of
softness overcoming hardness.
Lao-Tzu
#97. May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.
Dan Millman
#98. If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
Anonymous
#99. To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth
Radhe Maa
#100. Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun?
Matthew D. Heines