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#wisdom

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #wisdom




Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.


Shannon Hale


#wisdom #wisdom

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.


Niels Bohr


#humour #truth #wisdom #wisdom

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.


Harper Lee


#wisdom

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.


Rumi


#wisdom #wisdom

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.


Eleanor Roosevelt


#war #wisdom

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.


Elbert Hubbard


#insight #wealth #wisdom #wit #insight

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom


Paul Auster


#contemporary

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?


Confucius


#wisdom #zen #zen

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.


Shunryu Suzuki


#philosophy #suffering #wisdom #zen #zen-buddhism

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see


Nassim Nicholas Taleb


#empathy #intuition #prophet #wisdom #intuition






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