#wisdo

Dreams are our only geography—our native land. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dreams #geography #land #literature #literature-quotes

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#human #humanity #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#nothing #wisdom #wisdom

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #simplicity #wisdom #nature

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#humor #wisdom #attitude

Misfortunes make us wise ↗

— Mary Norton

#curiosity #intellectual #wisdom #curiosity

How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so. ↗

— Anne Rice

#god #wisdom #faith

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#distance #excellence #judge #peak #people

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#feelings #judging #prayer #wisdom #persistence

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#wisdom #self-knowledge