Wisdom Quotes

They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Winston Churchill

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Martin Luther

Sometimes the greatest act of love is no action at all.

Arrow (movie)

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Mahatma Gandhi

Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future.

Madame Marie du Deffand

It isn`t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it`s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Service

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pine

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Frida Kahlo

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

Chace Crawford

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

Uncle Kracker

I`ve lived long enough to know that any promise made beside the word "forever" is no more than a lie agreed upon. There is no forever. Everything moves towards its end. And the closer we get to ours, the louder that clock ticks, the less a sane man would let a promise deprive him of happiness.

Black Sails (movie)

The fact that something has not happened doesn`t mean it cannot happen; it only means that the way to make it happen is as yet unknown.

Ellen J. Langer