Wise Aphorisms Quotes

#1. As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. I didn't abandon everything at a moment's notice - on the contrary. I returned to France from America, leaving the 'Large Glass' unfinished.

Marcel Duchamp

#3. The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.

Jim Gerlach

#4. Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

Mason Cooley

#6. Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts

Angela Suba

#7. Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth - give berth to your worldview.

Kamini Arichandran

#8. Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Michel De Montaigne

#9. Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.

Rob Thurman

#10. Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

Richard Rohr

#11. I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person ...

Franz Kafka

#12. Always think and always dream. Wonder what's around the next corner for yourself, and don't be afraid to go there, but most of all Love. Loving yourself and the people around you is the easiest path through life. It will bring you around that corner, and places you've never been.

Ron Baratono

#13. Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.

Idries Shah

#14. What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.

Ilana Mercer

#15. If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

J.M. Coetzee

#17. Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

Aimee Bender

#18. If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

Nora Ephron