Wisdom quotes

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  1. The Earth is a living being, and we are inside her body. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  2. The heart has its own intelligence, and it speaks in a language older than thought. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  3. Beauty is a doorway. It is the language the living world uses to speak to us. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  4. Reductionism is a useful tool. It is a terrible worldview. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  5. The world is alive and aware of itself, and we are part of how it knows itself. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  6. The body is wiser than the mind. Trust what it tells you, even when you cannot explain it. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  7. Plants have been the great teachers of the human species. They taught us how to think, how to feel, how to… Stephen Harrod Buhner
  8. There is a deep intelligence in the natural world that we have only begun to understand. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  9. The Earth dreams us as much as we dream the Earth. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  10. Words are spells. They shape the world we live in. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  11. What is real is not what can be measured. What is real is what can be felt. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  12. Every place on Earth has a soul. Every river, every mountain, every grove. We are not alone here. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  13. We do not own the land. We belong to it. Stephen Harrod Buhner
  14. I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  15. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want… Jane Austen
  16. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen
  17. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb… Harper Lee
  18. Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become… George Orwell
  19. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell
  20. Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis
  21. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
  22. A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. Khaled Hosseini
  23. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf
  24. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde
  25. He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo
  26. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what… Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  27. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J.K. Rowling
  28. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
  29. I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. Markus Zusak
  30. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. Hermann Hesse
  31. The most important questions are the ones that have no answers. Milan Kundera
  32. Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. Haruki Murakami
  33. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami
  34. Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some. Margaret Atwood
  35. It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot
  36. So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. Anthony Doerr
  37. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Rainer Maria Rilke
  38. The mind of man is capable of anything. Joseph Conrad
  39. People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow
  40. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it. Jane Austen
  41. Angry people are not always wise. Jane Austen
  42. Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. Thomas Hardy
  43. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
  44. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth. Leo Tolstoy
  45. No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. John Steinbeck
  46. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
  47. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde
  48. Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes
  49. A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. Franz Kafka
  50. People do not know themselves nearly as well as they imagine. Anton Chekhov
  51. Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
  52. The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  53. Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  54. The things that we love tell us what we are. Umberto Eco
  55. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  56. Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  57. The secret of a happy life is to renounce ambition for things that do not matter. Salman Rushdie
  58. To understand just one life you have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie
  59. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Salman Rushdie
  60. Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. Khaled Hosseini
  61. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James Baldwin
  62. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
  63. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
  64. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all. Philip Pullman
  65. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer… Kurt Vonnegut
  66. He was a man who had never been able to refuse anybody anything. Joseph Heller
  67. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller
  68. I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. J.D. Salinger
  69. It's the truth even if it didn't happen. Ken Kesey
  70. You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter… Chuck Palahniuk
  71. Beneath every history, another history. Hilary Mantel
  72. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor
  73. She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. Flannery O'Connor
  74. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. Donna Tartt
  75. A king fortifies himself with a castle, a gentleman with a desk. Amor Towles
  76. When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Wait until you do. Rick Riordan
  77. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. George R.R. Martin
  78. Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. J.K. Rowling
  79. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen
  80. A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions. George Orwell
  81. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau
  82. Conceit spoils the finest genius. Louisa May Alcott
  83. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll
  84. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke
  85. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. Hermann Hesse
  86. Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen… Paulo Coelho
  87. To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  88. It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. J.K. Rowling
  89. People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. J.K. Rowling
  90. There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. J.K. Rowling
  91. The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Nicholas Sparks
  92. We must not portray people as they are, but as we know them to be. Leo Tolstoy
  93. To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority, is to say that it is bad. Leo Tolstoy
  94. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age. Robertson Davies
  95. The person, who reads too much and uses his own brain too little, falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein
  96. There's always another secret. Brandon Sanderson
  97. Sometimes, the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the… Brandon Sanderson
  98. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind. Brandon Sanderson
  99. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. Patrick Rothfuss
  100. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. Patrick Rothfuss
  101. There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a… Patrick Rothfuss
  102. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. Ursula K. Le Guin
  103. You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will… Ursula K. Le Guin
  104. The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. Ursula K. Le Guin
  105. When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. Ursula K. Le Guin
  106. You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. Ursula K. Le Guin
  107. The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett
  108. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. Terry Pratchett
  109. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett
  110. Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Pratchett
  111. Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his… Terry Pratchett
  112. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. Terry Pratchett
  113. The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think… Terry Pratchett
  114. There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. We're all on the same side. Terry Pratchett
  115. Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. Terry Pratchett
  116. The price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted. Neil Gaiman
  117. A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. Neil Gaiman
  118. The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. George R.R. Martin
  119. Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones? George R.R. Martin
  120. Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather. Robert Jordan

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