Top 100 Simple Wisdom Quotes
#1. Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not - they cannot - express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.
Steve Hagen
#3. Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.
Auberon Waugh
#4. 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
#5. When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
Shekhar Kapur
#6. The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.
Debasish Mridha
#8. To be a winner in life, be simple and be kind.
You will win the heart and you will win the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.
Jim Rohn
#10. If believing were simple, then this world wouldn't be in the mess that it is today.
M.K. Clinton
#11. What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.
Nirmala Srivastava
#12. Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. When you are very simple, honest, and kind, people may take advantage of you and cheat you, but be loving and kind. Remember that no one can cheat you except you and yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#15. More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
#16. Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.
Jessica Zafra
#18. A grasp of the psychological mechanism behind taste will not necessarily change our sense of what we find beautiful, but it can prevent us from reacting to what we don't like with simple disparagement
Alain De Botton
#20. The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
Joyce Meyer
#22. An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.
Jay Abraham
#24. Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.
DuBose Heyward
#25. Wisdom is better than knowledge, for wisdom is simple but knowledge is complex.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Success and accomplishments aren't the golden "good life" goals. Instead, having a good life is simple. For an old man to be happy, he just wants to watch the fireworks with his granddaughter on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Marcella Purnama
#28. A big part of wisdom is to learn which situations to get involved in, or not get involved in - it really is as simple as that.
Art Hochberg
#29. People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
#30. Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#31. All we are doing are self-portraits. As simple that. We accumulate knowledge and wisdom and power, and we get our hearts broken, and we write. We write for others to absorb what took us so long to understand.
Cristian Mihai
#33. Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time.
Craig Groeschel
#34. All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Napoleon Hill
#35. We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.
Debasish Mridha
#37. In a verse of the Shema they found all the learning and all the law of their simple lives
that their Lord was One God, and that they must love him with all their souls. And they loved him, and such was their wisdom, surpassing that of kings.
Lew Wallace
#38. I don't have enough knowledge or wisdom to say anything profound to people all over the world. But maybe a simple "I love you," as corny as it may sound, shows them that I am willing to be compassionate, generous, and peaceful with them.
Richard Brancatisano
#39. A simple act of kindness can touch someone's mind, so in every interaction be loving and be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#40. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
Steven D. Levitt
#45. Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number.
Michael Ben Zehabe
#48. Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble
#50. THE ROAD TO WISDOM
The road to wisdom?
Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
Piet Hein
#51. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.
Michael Meade
#52. Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners ...
Meredith Duran
#53. Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#54. The highest form of wisdom is to be simple and live in the beauty of love.
Debasish Mridha
#55. There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
Aristotle.
#56. Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.
Scott Cunningham
#57. Be courageous, but humble,
passionate, but simple,
have beliefs, but be flexible.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.
Loren Rhoads
#60. Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Francis Bacon
#61. The only way to find happiness is to be simple and love every moment and every thing.
Debasish Mridha
#62. The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.
Donna Goddard
#63. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao-Tzu
#64. Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.
Abhijit Naskar
#65. Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains simple- following your heart and pursuing your life purpose.
Roopleen
#66. Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.
Charles R. Swindoll
#67. There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
Gottfried Leibniz
#68. The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
Benjamin Graham
#69. So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
Ramakrishna
#71. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#72. So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.
Florence Littauer
#75. Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,
means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,
one as much as another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!
Ramana Maharshi
#77. Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.
Debasish Mridha
#78. I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.
Confucius
#81. Just believe; believe in yourself; believe in your ability. Things will be possible; things will be simple; things will be a reality.
Debasish Mridha
#82. A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#83. You achieve greatness, not by accumulating wealth, but by becoming king, loving, forgiving, and simple.
Debasish Mridha
#84. True love comes from the heart, it is very simple and nonjudgmental.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Simple words can be given powerful meanings. Wit and wisdom are simple words that speak to truth.
Jim Boyd
#86. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho
#88. Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.
Paulo Coelho
#89. One would think wisdom brings one to err less, but logic dictates that wisdom is more often gained through our errors than through those choices which meet with simple conclusions.
Melissa McPhail
#91. If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.
Molly Friedenfeld
#92. A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another's soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.
Molly Friedenfeld
#94. We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.
David Hume
#95. It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.
Criss Jami
#96. The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
Gottfried Leibniz
#98. Wisdom is simple but profound.
Folly, even when complex, is stupid.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. I am very simple and kind of a man to be a politician.
Debasish Mridha
#100. It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.
Alaric Hutchinson
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