Top 86 Water Wisdom Quotes
#1. Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
C.S. Lewis
#3. The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
#4. Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#5. Water is happy when it falls; water is happy when it rises! We call this as wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. If you aren't willing to look foolish, you're foolish. And that's why so many people have never built an ark, killed a giant, or walked on water.
Mark Batterson
#7. Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.
Seth Godin
#8. The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
Idries Shah
#10. A heart without kindness is like a river without water.
A mind without clarity is like a dark cloudy sky.
A life without purpose is like journey without destination.
Debasish Mridha
#11. You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#13. Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
#14. With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labour'd it to grow: And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - "I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Omar Khayyam
#15. A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.
Roseville Nidea
#16. Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
William Arthur Ward
#17. Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything
Stewart Stafford
#18. The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.
Laozi
#19. But Harry knew now that love was a soldier. It can invade the human heart. Build canopies through jungles. Scale castle walls. Cross moats. Love can probably walk on water.
Cathie Pelletier
#20. The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Lucretius
#21. 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
#22. It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.
Dennis Adonis
#24. Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
Chanakya
#25. Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart.
Debasish Mridha
#26. I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#27. Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding
Thich Nhat Hanh
#28. Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of
softness overcoming hardness.
Lao-Tzu
#29. Water and grace flow to persons and places that are lower.
Radhe Maa
#30. Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.
Joanne Harris
#31. The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#32. Water has no hands,
but carries great ships.
Air has no shoulders,
but carries large planes.
The Sun has no eyes,
but finds its way around the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. Water is not frightened of the ocean. Light is not frightened of the Sun.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. Our highest intelligence is deep water flowing into the shallows
Jayne Ryan
#35. The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
Morihei Ueshiba
#36. Time flows away like the water in the river.
Confucius
#37. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller
#38. The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. Dreams are flowers of our desires. To let them bloom, nurture them with water, love, and care.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Some people walk with oceans in their hearts; some just with jars of water. Drink from both.
Eric Onyango Otieno
#41. If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, "It seems to be raining," on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.
Dashiell Hammett
#42. I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.
Justin Bog
#43. Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.
Mark Helprin
#44. THE BIRD AND THE WATER
A bird which has not heard of fresh water
Dips his beak in salt-water year after year.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Idries Shah
#45. Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.
D.J. MacLennan
#46. Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.
Alaric Hutchinson
#47. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
Anne Lamott
#48. It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
Rumi
#50. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)
Patrick Rothfuss
#51. A human being is a garden of love. Only you have to know how much water is needed to grow them.
Debasish Mridha
#52. The Master said, "What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water - other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui's joy. What a worthy man was Hui!"
(Analects 6.11)
Confucius
#53. What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
Rumi
#54. Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
Laughter always follow tears
Blessed are those who understand
Life blossoms wherever water flows
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown
Rumi
#55. There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.
Chanakya
#56. Knowledge is knowing a basket, wisdom is not putting water into it.
Ziglar Zig
#57. To understand the song of life, listen to the melody of wind and ocean and watch the dance of waves and water.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning ... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.
Chidi Okonkwo
#60. Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.
Stephen Fry
#63. If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.
Debasish Mridha
#64. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!
Derek Rydall
#65. Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear; it travels everywhere; it learns some things from everything and this is the secret of water's wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
Benjamin Franklin
#67. Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
Chanakya
#68. Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Water wrestles great opponents,
but has no hands,
and tramples great rivals,
but has no feet.
It slips through our fingers,
but can swallow entire towns.
Wind also slips through our fingers,
but can swallow entire cities.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#70. Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
Confucius
#72. Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#73. Those who have no mental vigilance,
Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate,
With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug,
Their learning will not settle in their memories.
Shantideva
#74. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#75. Where roads are made I lose my way.
In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.
The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.
And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.
Rabindranath Tagore
#76. Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#77. I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.
Bryce Courtenay
#78. Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.
Rumi
#79. To be a success, water your dream with optimism and love.
Debasish Mridha
#81. The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
#82. A mind without kindness is like a river without water.
Debasish Mridha
#83. It
does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom
is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but
encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his
soul, refreshed by water.
Nikolai Gogol
#84. The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.
Bryant McGill
#85. Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Josh Billings
#86. Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.
Radhe Maa
