Wisdom Quotes - Thoughtful Sayings and Insights

"Great results require great ambition."

Heraklit von Ephesos

"The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions are comforting. They reduce the anxiety that we would experience if we allowed ourselves to fully acknowledge the uncertainties of existence. We all have a need for the reassuring message that actions have appropriate consequences, and that success will reward wisdom and courage. Many business books are tailor-made to satisfy this need."

Daniel Kahneman

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom"

René Descartes

"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius

"Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth."

Eduard Douwes Dekker

"Liberty is traditional and conservative; it remembers its legends and its heroes. But tyranny is always young and seemingly innocent, and asks us to forget the past."

G. K. Chesterton

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up men to procure wood, assign tasks and divide up the work, but teach them to yearn for the vast, endless sea."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Some mountains seem impossible to overcome—until we take the first step."

Unbekannt

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

John Ruskin

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."

Werner Heisenberg

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

"Paradise is not a place, but a state of mind."

Elmar Kupke und Hans-Christoph Neuert

"A truth can only take effect when the recipient is ready for it. Therefore, it is not the fault of the truth that people are still so full of folly."

Christian Morgenstern

"Peace begins on your plate."

Vegane Weisheiten

"As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love."

Pythagoras von Samos

"Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them"

Ja Leto

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

Walter Lippmann