Quotes About Wisdom

Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you?

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!

Be silent when you are criticised so that you can hear the critiques well!

Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!

Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!

Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!

Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young!

Brain is the only sword of the peaceable man and sword is the only brain of the violent man!

Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!

By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!

By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!

Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!

Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely so that you can easily get rid of them once you have realised that they are wrong!

Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!

Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!