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Quotes About Wisdom

Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
~ American Proverb
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
~ American Quaker Saying
Nature holds all the answers — go outside and ask some questions — open your heart and listen to the response!
~ Amethyst Wyldfyre
At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.
~ Amin Maalouf
La route quelquefois s'agrémente de fables, comme le sommeil s'agrémente de songes, il faut savoir ouvrir les yeux à l'arrivée.
~ Amin Maalouf
Hiçbir ÅŸeye ÅŸa??rma, hakikatin de insanlar?n da iki yüzü vard?r.
~ Amin Maalouf
Zaman?n iki yüzü var, dedi kendi kendine Hayyam, iki boyutu; uzunluÄŸunu güneÅŸin seyri belirliyor, kal?nl???n? ise tutkular.
~ Amin Maalouf
Ak?ll? olman için dua etmiyorum. Ak?ll? olursan akl?n? güçlülerin hizmetine verirsin. Talihli olman? istiyorum ki ak?ll? insanlar sana hizmet etsinler.
~ Amin Maalouf
Bana kötü deyip kötülük edeceksen, Ya Hüda, ne fark?n kal?r benden söyle.
~ Amin Maalouf
Eure Lippen haben sich gestreift, sind auseinander dann, Als sei euer Anteil am Glück bereits verbraucht und als hättet ihr Angst, vom Glück der anderen schon zu kosten. Ihr wart unschuldig? Wovor hat Unschuld je bewahrt? Selbst der Schöpfer sagt uns, wir sollen zu Festen Lämmer schlachten, Nie aber Wölfe...
~ Amin Maalouf
À chaque époque, commente le moine Élias, il s'est trouvé parmi les gens de Kfaryabda un personnage fou, et lorsqu'il disparaissait, un autre était prêt à prendre sa place comme une braise sous la cendre pour que ce feu ne s'éteigne jamais. Sans doute la Providence a-t-elle besoin de ces pantins qu'elle agite de ses doigts pour déchirer les voiles que la sagesse des hommes a tissés.
~ Amin Maalouf
Un homme sage s'estime responsable de ses actes et de leurs conséquences ; un homme dénué de sagesse ne se sent responsable que de ses intentions.
~ Amin Maalouf
Man has survived hitherto Because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either chnage them or perish. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
~ Amin Maalouf
Tell her that the qualities needed to govern are not those which are needed in order to accede to power.
~ Amin Maalouf
Hayat, b?k?lacak kadar uzun de?il.
~ Amin Maalouf
I had to await my first white hairs, my first regrets, before becoming convinced that every man, including my father, had the right to take the wrong road if he believed he was pursuing happiness. From that time I began to cherish his erring ways, just as I hope that you will cherish mine, my son. I wish that you too will sometimes get lost in your turn. And I hope that, like him, you will love to the point of tyranny, and that you will long remain receptive to the noble temptations of life.
~ Amin Maalouf
La Fontaine avait illustré, dans La Cigale et la Fourmi, ce qui était la morale de son
~ Amin Maalouf
By the age of seventeen I had accumulated information, then I learnt how to believe.
~ Amin Maalouf
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The test of first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
~ Amit Goswami
You want to know of Death? Well, I shall save my breath. When you know Life, why then, We'll talk of Death again. Confucius
~ Amit Goswami
Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.
~ Amit Ray
Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings.
~ Amit Ray
Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate.
~ Amit Ray
God, Beauty and Truth are synonymous. Take any one of the three paths and you will reach the goal.
~ Amit Ray