Wise Quotes

“A child raised by himself becomes a fool. But a child raised by The State becomes something worse—a fool that thinks he’s wise.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“Even if you were were given the privilege to live twice, you would never repeat the same day twice. And if you are wise, you will only need to be told that once.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Wise words doesn't make you wise...
It makes you a smart person!
Wisdom makes you a gentleman.”
― Deepa Gera

“Life is amply confusing on its own; don’t create confusion where it doesn’t exist. You don’t get to make the world whatever you wish it to be. You don’t get to make yourself whatever you wish to be.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“I think it is a medically proven fact that the older one gets, the more quick one is two spots conspiracies. Skulduggery. Cloak and dagger stuff.”
― John Katzenbach, Hart's War

“In this whole world, the wise is only the one who knows himself”
― Vishesh Panthi, The Genius James

“God provided wood as well as the skill of the carpenter. He provided marble as well as the skill of the sculptor. But by far, the greatest thing that He provided us with was the freedom to use the provisions in whatever manner we might choose. And the greatest skill that He granted us was the wisdom to use them wisely. Therefore, if we have abused the freedom and abandoned the wisdom we will destroy a million trees and turn quarries of marble to powder. And at that point, we will have nothing to build with and everything to grieve for.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is both more and less than what we think.”
― Humanityisdiversity.org

“A quiet mind thinks louder.”
― Urbarra

“A gun safety instructor once told me that if you pull the trigger you’re going to create a hole somewhere. So, in the choices that we make in life we would be wise to consider the fact that we’re going to create a hole. And therefore we might want to consider where that hole should be and where it shouldn’t. But maybe the most significant thing that we need to consider is that most triggers never need to be pulled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Apparently the driver had driven through three barriers before they ended up at the bottom of the ravine. And when asked how they had missed the “Bridge Out” signs, the driver replied, “I was too busy driving the car to read the signs.” And as I think about our culture, I often wonder how many ravines are we going to have to end up in before we begin reading the signs?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too many people act like a ventriloquist dummy sitting on the lap of another dummy with both dummies talking about other dummies who were smart enough not to be in the auditorium or even consider buying a ticket to the show.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An attitude of Thanksgiving cannot be reconciled to any notion of entitlement, for the two stand at odds so diametrically opposed that one must be eradicated if the other is to survive. Therefore, we will either choose to be lavishly enriched by an attitude of thanksgiving that will not be diminished by depravity of any kind, or we will spend our lives fleeing from a depravity that we could not elude because we worked to obtain what we declared to be ours but never was.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“I am but one climbing a ladder of millions, and those millions have seen each beneath them, and held the same rungs of knowledge one after the other. I am just number million and one, and there are a billion more.”
― Blake Sevann

“Writing as a process of personal expression is an effort to provide meaning to life. Whether it is in the form of poetry which gives a touch of beauty to what we think or feel, or novels or stories as imaginative imitations of life. Whether it will succeed or fail, at least the writing will make us wiser in interpreting our own lives.”
― Titon Rahmawan

“I'm not getting older, I'm becoming an expert.”
― Jennifer Chernicky

“Independence is the freedom to choose that which we will depend upon.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“True intelligence recognizes that the refusal to create problems is the best solution to every problem.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Remember, the other half of starting a fire is putting it out.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The most dangerous action for an ignorant is to make a wise man to restart from zero.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Feelings are trailheads that lead to insight.”
― Cameron Conaway

“When you have self-awareness, you own yourself, your thoughts, and define your identity,without it, others will control of you”
― Zahir Oran

“Don't expect anything bad to happen, but be prepared for everything.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“The home of peace is in the naturalness of relationships. Whether with people, animals, plants, things, or situations.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Misadventures make for the some of the best adventures.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The Dark Cloud
Is knowing that you will never get over past trauma, but you will learn to live with it
Is refusing to settle for people that want to degrade and to hit
Is being forced to become wiser than your age group so you could survive
Is learning that you can’t rely on anyone but yourself in order to thrive”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“Everybody hates something,” I retort. “I don’t like lima beans—am I the Grinch too?”

“It’s not just what you hate; it’s why you hate it,” Mateo replies seriously. “Indiana Jones hates snakes because he’s afraid of them. Superman hates kryptonite because it’s his weakness. The Wicked Witch of the West hates water because it makes her melt. But Mr. Kermit and the Grinch are both haters for the same reason—noise.”
― Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

“I never want to view myself as sufficiently principled to shape Biblical ideals, rather than being sufficiently wise so as to be shaped by them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A true genius recognizes that if they’ve arrived at a conclusion there’s a good chance that they’ve yet to arrive.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough