Top 100 Wisdom Well Quotes
#1. There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach out to people, when you meet with others and share their thoughts and sufferings, infinite compassion and wisdom well up within your heart. Your life is transformed.
Daisaku Ikeda
#2. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
#3. I had a dream that I could please everyone. Well that will always be a dream, because I find that near to impossible to do.
Starley Ard
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The amount of time spent doing something is what adds value to it
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
Daniel Goleman
#8. There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll grow, not by thy might. And you shall reap them all before it's night! Live life so well!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#12. 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
#13. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive
Sunday Adelaja
#14. 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
#15. I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
Yousuf Karsh
#17. The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.
Woody Allen
#19. Naturally, everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands, and by the most amiable corrections as well, if they are frequent, immoderate, or given inappropriately.
Vincent De Paul
#20. Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca The Younger
#22. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
#24. We die unconsciously, we are born unconsciously and we live unconsciously as well
Anatoliy Obraztsov
#25. Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#26. Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good - death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly.
Hermann Hesse
#27. You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#30. 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
#31. To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)
Donald Rothberg
#33. Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#34. You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.
Abu'l-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi
#36. You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
George Allen, Sr.
#38. Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy
#40. The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
Bertrand Russell
#41. At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.
Arianna Huffington
#42. If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.
Ibn Ata Allah
#43. I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
Ray Lamontagne
#44. Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.
Charles Bukowski
#46. Is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it, or does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom?
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#49. Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.
Naya Rivera
#50. Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.
George F. Will
#53. Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.
Lorraine Heath
#54. Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it. - Brohan Madhrarigal
Gregory S. Close
#56. The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.
Harold Laski
#57. Be realistic we're told. Listen to feedback. Play well with others. Compromise. Well, what if the "other" party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It's this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back.
Ryan Holiday
#59. Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.
Samuel Gridley Howe
#60. 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
#61. Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person's knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.
Nikki Rowe
#65. You get lucky when you are well prepared for the opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Guard your hearts and thoughts; it is well spring of either life or death.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#67. Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you
Sunday Adelaja
#69. True wisdom would be the ability to live without this scenery, to be the same person even at the bottom of a well. But that, it has to be said, is not so easy.
Francois Lelord
#70. When we learn to enjoy success as well as failure, we will be eternally happy and joyful for sure.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Think of something, Oh yes! Think of something. Your life must not be in retardation so think of something! Think of growth for that is the whole essence of life!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
Idries Shah
#73. The passion to condense from book to book
Unbroken wisdom in a single look,
Though we know well that when this fix the head,
The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.
Yvor Winters
#74. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
Dejan Stojanovic
#76. We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#78. Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time
Sunday Adelaja
#79. There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Francis Bacon
#80. We are gaining the knowledge; science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.
Isaac Asimov
#81. People can easily forget how fast you did your work, but can hardly forget how well you did it.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#82. If the body dies, life ends! If the body is disturbed, life is disturbed. If the mind is not sound, everything least sound well to the mind! Mind your body; mind your mind!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#83. It should be considered right to live and enjoy living. To be well, happy, and to express freedom, is to be in accord with Divine Law and Wisdom.
Ernest Holmes
#84. Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
Victor Hugo
#87. There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.
John Muir
#88. Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly.
Steve Van Matre
#90. I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
#91. All the material wealth cannot be substituted for the spiritual, physical, emotion and mental well-being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads
formed years and miles apart.
Gina Greenlee
#93. Add value to yourself by exchanging your time with knowledge
Sunday Adelaja
#94. Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;
when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#95. I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
Rod Taylor
#96. The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
William Cowper
#97. Is more unfair," as an English historian has well said, "than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#98. Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted
Sunday Adelaja
#99. A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#100. Get your idea into image and find ways to convert it into tangible product
Sunday Adelaja
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