Top 63 Short Wisdom Quotes
#1. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.
Warren Buffett
#3. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.
Debasish Mridha
#5. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
Brent Jones
#6. I believe that when people view the end of their life as a short time left to live and no time to waste, they open up their hearts more profoundly, knowing they have less, not more, time to live.
Linda Noble Topf
#7. In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?
Paul MacCready
#9. A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
#10. What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#12. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#13. There is wisdom in realizing that God's unimaginable design within us is a design that will always thrust our short-sighted boundaries out to horizons that we can't even fathom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.
Murasaki Shikibu
#15. I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.
Derek Raymond
#16. In early spring, every petal of tulips sing a song of love and life, dance with joy and happiness to enjoy her short life of dazzling beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#17. But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath
#18. In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn't ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.
Gina Barreca
#19. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
#20. The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term gain, and the long term win.
Pearl Zhu
#21. You can almost define a convict as one who lacks precisely the kind of wisdom and self-control necessary to derive long-term advantage from short-term discomfort.
Stephen Fry
#23. Duration of life is short but donation of life could be unbounded.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
Deborah Harkness
#26. Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.
Zack Love
#27. The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Brian Tracy
#28. Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)
Charles Baxter
#29. Our life is sweet, short, and bright. We have enough moments to enjoy the delights of life.
Debasish Mridha
#30. My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
Ajay Mehta
#31. For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.
Bertolt Brecht
#32. My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.
Samuel Morse
#33. You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Chad Harbach
#34. We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.
Robin S. Sharma
#35. EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
Ambrose Bierce
#36. We are here for a short time, so live a life of love and kindness, which tends to live long.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgement; and what is there short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord?
James Fenimore Cooper
#39. Don't complain because life is too short; appreciate because you are going through the most amazing journey called life.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.
Marsilio Ficino
#41. So before you decide you can't forgive her, ask yourself if you want to live without her. We're only here for a short time, man. Don't waste it.
K.J. Bell
#42. Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
#44. In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.
Noah Webster
#45. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.
William Warburton
#46. 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
#47. The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.
Jeremy Taylor
#48. Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain.
Friedrich Schiller
#49. Don't speak thoughtlessly.
Don't worry unnecessarily.
Don't work half-heartedly.
Don't spend recklessly.
Don't give begrudgingly.
Don't act self-centeredly.
Don't live short-sightedly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.
Iimani David
#53. Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.
Michael Savage
#54. Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.
Cathie Pelletier
#55. You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.
Stephen Levine
#56. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.
Jonathan Hull
#58. Knowledge is the comprehensive embodiment of imagination that surfaces in observation and finally ripens through the reinforcement of experience thereby inculcating knowledge. This in fact is the short story of life.
Q.M. Sidd
#60. 1My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a short cut to the truth,' replied Max.
'He's a wise man, your father. What else does he say?'
'That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#61. Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.
John Nolte
#62. At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom.
E.F. Schumacher
#63. A bird needs both long and short feathers to fly," said Jia. "You need to learn to work with different kinds of people." Kuni nodded, glad of Jia's wisdom.
Ken Liu
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