“I am old enough to know that you can never say for sure what someone else will do.”— Michael Hirst, Lagertha Lothbrok, Katheryn Winnick, imdb.com
“As much as death takes from us, it also gives. It teaches us what is truly important, like giving back after a lifetime of taking, going after something we should have never let go of, or looking on to what made us who we are.”— Marc Cherry, Annie Weisman, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com
“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“Wisdom comes from knowing that what others say about you is not your reality. It’s their reality.”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, thoughtcatalog.com
“You must cultivate your wisdom and spirit. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the Ways of different arts one by one. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realized the wisdom of strategy.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“Since [Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S.], I have acquired new wisdom ...or, to put it more critically, have discarded old ignorance.”— Antonin Scalia, oyez.org
“Sometimes you have to choose between planting roots or growing wings.”— Unknown, mindful-minds.tumblr.com
“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com
“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age—which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based o…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“A rather serious—maybe too serious—university student from another country came to Hafiz to personally ask for his permission to translate some of Hafiz's poems into a little book. And he said to Hafiz, ‘What is the essential quality in your poems that I need to incorporate in my translations to mak…”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.com
“Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought to be content having exacerbated everyone around him, but he insists tormenting future generations.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In do…”— Alexander Pope, gutenberg.org
“No friend is better than your own wise heart! Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself. Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness. Although there are many things you should cherish, no one is more…”— Genghis Khan, amazon.com
“You could perhaps say ‘happiness’ but ‘happiness’ is misleading, for it suggests continuous chirpiness and joy, whereas ‘fulfillment’ seems compatible with a lot of pain and suffering, which every decent life must by necessity have.”— Alain de Botton, dailystoic.com