Stanley's Life Philosophy and Ideas Blog: Wisdom, inspirational, and motivational quotes found in movies, by famous people, and in videogames.

I want to add a section for wisdom, inspirational, and motivational quotes found in movies, by famous people, and in videogames. Reason being is that I personally find it inspirational and a good example of understanding a lesson from others to enrich one’s life. However, beware this will be a long list.

“You are who you choose to be. You choose”. – The Iron Giant
“Train yourself to let go, everything you fear to lose.” – Yoda
“Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?”- What A Girl Wants
"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it." – Rafiki in The Lion King
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter
Do, or do not. There is no "try". – Yoda
“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – The notebook
"Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first." – Good Will Hunting
“I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.” – Billy Madison
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!” – A Cinderella Story
“We are who we choose to be.” –Green Goblin
“Forever is a long time and time has a way of changing things.” – The fox and the hound
“I live in a world full of people pretending to be something they're not.” – A Cinderella Story
“Kid, there are heroes and there are legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die” Babe Ruth
"That’s what people do. They leap, and hope to God they can fly." – Hitch
“That's just the trouble with me,I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” -Alice in Wonderland
“Never hate your enemies, it affects your judgment.” – The God Father
"Truth only means something when it's hard to admit." – The last song
"Just be yourself, because life's too short to be anybody else." - Step Up 2: The Streets
“Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage just literally 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery and I promise you something great will come of it.” –We Bought A Zoo
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda
"The ones that love us, never really leave us". – Harry Potter
“This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.” – Fight Club
“We may come from different places, and speak with different tongues, but our hearts beat as one.” - Dumbeldore
“Everybody screws up. That’s what happens. It’s what you do with the screw ups, how you handle the experience... That’s what you should judge yourself by...” – Gilmore girls
“In their last moments, people show you who they really are.” – The Joker in The Dark Knight
"The secret to be special is, you have to believe that you're special." – Kung Fu Panda
“Dreams feel real when we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize that something is actually strange.” – Inception
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.” – Lord of the Rings
“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.” – V for Vendetta
“Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.” – American History X
“It is only after we've lost everything that we are free to do anything.”- Fight Club
“Not all treasure is silver and gold mate.” Pirates of the Caribbean
"There's nothing bigger in life than the little things..." – Tom Cruise
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." – Inception
“There is a difference between knowing the road and walking on it.” – The Matrix
“Fairytales might not come true but dreams do.” – Cinderella Story
“In dreams we enter a world which is entirely our own.” –Dumbeldore
“Why do we fall? So we can get right back up again.” – Batman Begins
“It's supposed to be hard, if it wasn't hard everybody would do it. It's the hard that makes it great!” – Tom Hanks
“Live for nothing, or die for something.” –I Am Legend
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity!" –Gladiator
“Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs: yin and yang, right and wrong, men and women. What’s pleasure without pain?” – Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.” – Ryan Gosling in The Notebook
“It’s not about the paycheck, it’s about respect, it’s about looking in the mirror and knowing that you’ve done something valuable with your day.” – Kevin Kline in Dave
“Whatever you fear most has no power over you. It is the fear that has the power.” – George Clooney in The Men Who Stare At Goats
We can’t retract the decisions we’ve made. We can only affect the decisions we’re going to make from here.” – Jamie Foxx in Law Abiding Citizen
“We’re going to live like we’re telling the best story in the whole world. Are you ready?” – Rachel Weisz in The Brothers Bloom
“Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.” – Christian Bale in The Dark Knight
“As long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.” –Spartacus
“Until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life!” – Rocky Balboa
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that! – Ricky Balboa
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” – To Kill A Mockingbird
“He must choose his own path; no one can choose it for him.” – Princess Leia from Star Wars
“Whenever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth.” – 12 Angry Men
“Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won.” – Gandhi
“Life moves pretty fast. If you stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.” - Ferris Beuler's Day Off
“This is the way things are. You can’t change nature.” “Change is nature dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide.” – Ratatouille
“You live each day, as if it was on purpose”. – Will Smith
“Don’t let somebody tell you you can’t do something. You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.” – Will Smith
“You don’t just live in life. You change it. You shape it. You make your mark upon it.” – Phenomenon
"... Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, beyond measure.
Ima show you, how great I am.
Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch, and was in the bed before the room was dark.
Ima show you, how great I am.
Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick, Im so mean I make medicine sick.
Ima show you, how great I am.
This kids gonna be the best kid in the world.
This kids gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew.
Ima show you, how great I am.
I have wrastled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale, I done handcuffed lightnin, thrown thunder in jail.
Ima show you, how great I am.
All you chumps are gonna bow when I whoop him, all of you, I know you got him, I know you've got him picked, but the mans in trouble, Ima show you how great I am.
But somewhere along the line you changed, you stopped being you.
You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good, and when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.
Let me tell you something you already know, the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows, its a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.
You, me, or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life; but it ain't about how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward.
That’s how winning is done.
Cause if you're willin' to go through all the battling you gotta go through to get to where you wanna get, who's got the right to stop you.
I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to somebody, something.
And you're told no even after you pay your dues, who's got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody.
Its your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no, after you earn the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do.
Now if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth.
But you've gotta be willing to take the hits.
And not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody.
Cowards do that and that ain't you!
You're better than that!
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
All you chumps are gonna bow when I whoop him, all of you, I know you got him, I know you've got him picked, but the mans in trouble, Ima show you how great I am. ..." – Mostly Muhamma Ali with part of Ricky Balboa
“The perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.” –Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curios.” - Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
“It’s not that I am smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” - Albert Einstein
“Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow – perhaps it all will.” - Albert Einstein
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” - Albert Einstein
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” - Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”. - Albert Einstein
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." - Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.” The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!” – Charlie Chaplin
“Every day you learn. Every day you make decisions in a complex world with conflicting data and overwhelming amounts of information.” – Nikola Tesla
“Instincts is something which transcends knowledge. We have undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.” –Nikola Tesla
“Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love.
There are reasons each of us are born. We have to find those reasons.” - Iroh’s from Avatar: the last Air Bender
“While it is always best to believe in one’s self, a little help from others can be a great blessing.” - Iroh’s from Avatar: the last Air Bender
“There’s nothing wrong with a life of peace and prosperity. I suggest you think about what it is that you want from your life, and why.” - Iroh’s from Avatar: the last Air Bender
“ It is usually best to admit mistakes when they occur, and to seek to restore honor.” - Iroh’s from Avatar: the last Air Bender
“ Is it your own destiny? Or is it a destiny someone else has tried to force on you?” - Iroh’s from Avatar: the last Air Bender
“If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.” – Murphy’s law
“If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.” – Murphy’s law
“Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.” - Murphy’s law
“The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.” - Murphy’s law
“The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.” - Marty Feldman
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.” - Charlie Brown
“Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie isn’t what matters, it’s what you do after you tell it. If you work hard enough, you can make it true.” - Hope from Final Fantasy 13
“You mustn’t allow yourself to be chained to fate. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What’s important is that you choose life…and then live…” -Naomi from Metal Gear Solid 4
“Boss... you were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others, and believing in your own.” – Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid 4
"It all began with a bunch of old fools. Now they've all passed away, their era of folly is over." - Big Boss
"So wise so young, they say, do never live long." - William Shakespeare
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare
"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself." - William Shakespeare
“Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact… same fucking thing… over and over again expecting… shit to change… That. Is. Crazy. The first time somebody told me that, I dunno, I thought they were bullshitting me, so, I shot him. The thing is… He was right. And then I started seeing, everywhere I looked, everywhere I looked all these fucking pricks, everywhere I looked, doing the exact same fucking thing… over and over and over and over again thinking ‘this time is gonna be different’ no, no, no please… This time is gonna be different, I’m sorry, I don’t like… The way…you are looking at me… Okay, Do you have a fucking problem in your head, do you think I am bullshitting you, do you think I am lying? Fuck you! Okay? Fuck you!… It’s okay, man. I’m gonna chill, hermano. I’m gonna chill… The thing is… Alright, the thing is I killed you once already… and it’s not like I am fucking crazy. It’s okay… It’s like water under the bridge. Did I ever tell you the definition… of insanity?” - Vaas Montenegro from Far Cry 3
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." -Nelson Mandela
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"There Is An Elequence In True Enthusiasm" - Edgar Allen Poe
"Winners never quit and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." - George Bernard Shaw
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordan
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." - Khalil Gibran
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart." - Phil Jackson
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." – Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder." – Socrates
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." -John C. Maxwell
"Silence is a source of great strength." - Lao Tzu
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Lao Tzu
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." - John F. Kennedy
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." – Plato
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise." - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Khalil Gibran
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Honesty is the best policy." - Benjamin Franklin
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - George Bernard Shaw
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Lao Tzu
"We can't command our love, but we can our actions." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." - Oprah Winfrey
"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own." - Publilius Syrus
"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is." - Vince Lombardi
"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it." - Ayn Rand
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.' - Henry David Thoreau
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.' - Archimedes
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." - Henry David Thoreau
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you." - John Wooden
"Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you." - Joey Adams
"Cleverness is not wisdom." – Euripides
"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance." - Leo Buscaglia
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life." - Lord Byron
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Arthur Conan Doyle
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." – Akhenaton
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Wisdom is found only in truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H. L. Mencken
"Wisdom is learning what to overlook." - William James
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy." - Anton Chekhov
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." – Epictetus
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippmann
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow." - Ron White
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"Man is only great when he acts from passion." - Benjamin Disraeli
"No man was ever wise by chance."- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously." -Logan P. Smith
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." - Arthur Helps
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Jean Paul
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread." - Josh Billings
"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." – Horace
"If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements." - Mason Cooley
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself." - Teri Garr
"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements." - Denis Waitley
"Who is wise in love, love most, say least." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Start wide, expand further, and never look back." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself." - W. Clement Stone
"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune." – Horace
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." - Tom Wilson
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."- Aeschylus
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find." - Francis Bacon
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs
"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom." - James Huneker
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." – Sophocles
"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole." - Alexander Pope
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth." – Sophocles
"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper
"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe." - Josh Billings
"Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you." - Tom Hopkins
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it." - Doug Larson
"When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth." - Sara Teasdale
"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence." - Jean Paul
"If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks." -Sidney Lanier
"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think." -Alfred Austin
"What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty." -Shinichi Suzuki
"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty." - Mary Wilson Little
"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own." - Clarence Day
"Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform." - William Penn
"It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst." - Desiderius Erasmus
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being." - Jane Wyman
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." - David Starr Jordan
"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe." - Lord Salisbury
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." - Walter Benjamin
"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense." - Dean Inge
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself." - Sidney Lanier
"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens." - Ethel Barrymore
"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy." - William Temple
"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience." - Evelyn Underhill
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."- John Cheever
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." – Buddha
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself." - Khalil Gibran
"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue." –Buddha
"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Khalil Gibran
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." – Socrates
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." - Thomas Jefferson
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."- Jimi Hendrix
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival." - Thomas Jefferson
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." - John F. Kennedy
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." – Socrates
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." – Aeschylus
“What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
“To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
“I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.” - Shigeru Miyamoto
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world” ― Miyamoto Musashi in The Book of Five Rings
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” ― Miyamoto Musashi in The Book of Five Rings
“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain” ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
“Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.” ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.” ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet” ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
“All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them” ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
“No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible” ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.” ― Miyamoto Musashi
“There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
“Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.” ― Miyamoto Musashi
“Develop intuitive judgment and understanding for everything.” ― Miyamoto Musashi
“It is said that wisdom comes with age, but with openness and skepticism, the key principles of the scientific method, we don’t need decades of trial and error to sort out which of our convictions may be improbable. The question is not whether our beleifs are right or wrong, but whether or not being emotionally attached to them is more or less likely going to benefit us. There is no such thing as a free choice while being emotionally attached to a belief system. The moment we are self-aware enough to realize this, we can truly work together to figure out the real odds of what will benefit us the most”. – Athene's Theory of Everything
“The evolution of quantum mechanics has been one of unprecedented skeptical scrutiny towards our classical scientific paradigms. The self-awareness and willingness to revise our hypotheses, which are constantly challenged in science and humanity, will determine the extent to which we gain deeper understandings into the mind and the universe.” - Athene's Theory of Everything
“It makes me happy to see another person smile and to know that I put it there.” –Zack (teenager that died from cancer)
"History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme." ― Mark Twain
“I’m living in history, I’m not afraid to die.” – Red Dead Redemption
"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." – Plato
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." – Aristotle
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." – Plato
"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences." – Plato
“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.” -Morihei Ueshiba
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” -Francis of Assisi
“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.” -Johannes Tauler
“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.”-Keshavan Nair
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." –Plutarch
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." -Marcel Proust
"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely." -E. O. Wilson
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." -Immanuel Kant
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." -Ansel Adams
“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom." -Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Silence is true wisdom's best reply." –Euripides
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." -Thomas J. Watson
"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!" –Homer
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." -Lin Yutang
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable." -John Patrick
"In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind." -Kenichi Fukui
"Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way." -George Crabbe
"Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.' -Jeremy Collier
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”-Confucius
“Love is doing small things with great love.” –Mother Teresa
“Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.” –Mother Teresa
“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” –Mother Teresa
“We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.” -Maya Angelou
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”-Aristotle
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”-Hayao Miyazaki
"I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me, ... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time."-George Lucas
"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality"-George Lucas
"I was very lucky that we were able to create something that stimulated the imagination of young people," –George Lucas
“You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”-George Lucas
“Simple truths are more powerful than empires.” –Gandhi
“You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.”-Thich Nhat Hanh
“But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.” –Thich Nhat Hanh
“By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events, all phenomena can become sources of happiness.”-14th Dalai Lama
“Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace.”-14th Dalai Lama
“One of the most difficult things is not to change society--but to change yourself.” -Nelson Mandela
“It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.”-Nelson Mandela
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”-Nelson Mandela
“So I never doubted that ultimately we were going to be free, because ultimately, I knew there was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.”-Desmond Tutu
“It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.”-Desmond Tutu
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”-John Muir
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”-Albert Einstein
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”-Henry David Thoreau
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”-Helen Keller
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”-Helen Keller
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”-Helen Keller
“People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”-Salma Hayek
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”-Aldo Leopold
“For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.”-Donald Williams
“The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.”-Muhammad Yunus
“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”-Buddha
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”-Buddha
“We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.”-Madeleine Albright
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves.” -Lao Tzu
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.” -Lao Tzu
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”-Lao Tzu
“He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.”-Lao Tzu
“He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.” -Lao Tzu
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, peace is our gift to each other.”-Elie Wiesel
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”-Stephen Covey
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”-Wayne Dyer
“Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.”-Gary Zukav
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”-Marie Curie
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”-Harriet Tubman
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”-Marcel Proust
‘The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”-Barbara Kingsolver
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”-Lin Yutang
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”-Pope John XXIII
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”-Eden Phillpotts
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”-Mohandas Gandhi
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.” -Erma Bombeck
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”-Emily Dickinson
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”-Booker T. Washington
“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”-Charles Dickens
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” –Michelangelo
“Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.”-David Wilkerson
“No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”-Alan Watts
“The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers.”-Alan Watts
“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.”-Alan Watts
“. . . plant yourself where you can bloom.”-Erin Scanlon
"You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.”-Susanna Clark
“Wisdom begins with wonder.”-Socrates
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know." -Steven Spielberg
"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too." -Will Smith
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like."-Will Smith
"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." -Will Smith
"I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived." -Will Smith
"90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time and technology." -Hideo Kojima
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream ofyesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." -Robert H. Goddard
"All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made."-J. J. Abrams
"I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening."-J. J. Abrams
"I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations." -J. J. Abrams
"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." -St. Clement of Alexandra
"Dream big and dare to fail." -Norman Vaughan
"With will one can do anything." -Samuel Smiles
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." -Thornton Wilder
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."-Arthur C. Clarke
"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."-Johann Gottfried Von Herder
"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." -Samuel Smiles
"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need." –Voltaire
"Men's best successes come after their disappointments. "-Henry Ward Beecher
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -Samuel Johnson
"Fortune favors the brave." -Publius Terence
"When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are." -Richard Hooker
"If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence." -John B. Gough
"Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do." -Orison Swett Marden
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."-Winston Churchill
"Reach perfection."-Baltasar Gracián
"For hope is but the dream of those that wake."-Matthew Prior
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." -Mary Shelley
"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value." -Albert Einstein
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau
"Inspiration and genius--one and the same." -Victor Hugo
"To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." "-Edward Bulwer Lytton
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." -Christian Nestell Bovee
"If you would create something, you must be something." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Every artist was first an amateur." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be." -Horace Bushnell
"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." -Charlotte Brontë
"Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself." -W. C. Doane
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." -Orison Swett Marden
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunities." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can." -Thomas Carlyle
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." -Leon J. Suenes
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." -John Muir
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." –Epictetus
"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health." -Francis Bacon
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."-Michel de Montaigne
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." -Michel de Montaigne
"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool." -harles Caleb Colton
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."-Anatole France
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." -Theodore Isaac Rubin
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow." -William Osler
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom." -Bodhidharma
"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!" -Homer
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." -John Kenneth Galbraith
"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right." -William Hazlitt
"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."-William Hazlitt
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words." –Sophocles
"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."-Samuel Smiles
"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care." -William Penn
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." -Lin Yutang
"Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit." -Chen Shui-bian
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness." -Jean Cocteau
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.' -Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.' -Thomas Hobbes
"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues." -Abigail Adams
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom." -Will Durant
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." -Alexandre Dumas
"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." -Herman Melville
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."-Milan Kundera
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."-Akhenaton
"Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis." -Mary Kay Ash
"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part."-Christopher Reeve
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.' -Marilyn vos Savant
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious." –Zhuangzi
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives." -Cyril Connolly
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable." -John Patrick
“It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.” –Aeschylus
"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it." -Hugh Jackman
"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate." -Friedrich Schiller
"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom." -Alan Paton
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."-Omar N. Bradley
"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness." -Sacha Guitry
"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe." –Aristophanes
"I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom." -Benjamin Carson
"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom." -Havelock Ellis
"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values." -William J. Clinton
"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."-Dale Turner
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."-Leonard Nimoy
"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance." –Saadi
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability."-Plautus
"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next." -Herbert Hoover
"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."-Paul Engle
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.' -Julian Casablancas
"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum." -Holly Near
"After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society." -Eliot Spitzer
"The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course, rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey." -The Locket
"There are those who will read the last page of a book first. But it is not me. I believe that it is fortunate that we are allowed to turn just one page of our lives at a time." -The Locket
"Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life."-Herman Hesse
"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."-John Updike
"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."-Thomas Moore
"The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society." -Daisaku Ikeda
"History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom."-Daisaku Ikeda
"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss."-Edward Young
"In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind." -Kenichi Fukui
"Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power."-Tom Brown, Jr.
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."-Isaac D'Israeli
"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."-George Arliss
"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains."-Francis Quarles
"Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles." -Estelle Getty
"Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom." -Joshua Foer
"The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true."-Lactantius
"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature."-Paul Ricoeur
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions."-John A. Simone, Sr.
"Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain."-Ray Kurzweil
"Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth."-Keith Miller
"Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition."-Riccardo Muti
"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."-Johann Georg Hamann
“Hyaaaaaah!” –Link from the Legend of Zelda
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed." -William Whitehead
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."-Jean Bodin
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”-Confucius
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story and that day mine changed.” –Cypher Raige played by Will Smith in the movie After Earth
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."-Sidney Hook
"Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way." -George Crabbe
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."-Martin Henry Fischer
"This is my story! It'll go the way I want it to, or I'll end it here!"-Tidus from Final Fantasy X
"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."-Francis Hutcheson
"Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie isn't what matter, it's what you do after you tell it. If you work hard enough you can make it true."-Hope from Final Fantasy 13
"Always remember that your destiny is in your own hands. Never forget that. You must decide what is right. Do you understand?"-Leknaat Suikoden Series
"Please tell me the answer, is fate unchangeable?"-Luc from the Suikoden Series
"The greatest joy a father can experience.... is to see his son ... surpass him! (last words)"-Teo McDohl from the Suikoden Series
"The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they'll go." -Mr. Hanekoma from The World Ends With You
"War is where the old and bitter trick the young and stupid into killing each other."-Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto IV
"Anxiety and fear only get in the way. Remain rational at all times." -Shin Megami Tensei.
"No one lives in the slums because they want to. It's like this train. It can only go where the tracks take it." - Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy 7.
"Oh! Cloud! Your hair looks like a Chocobo" -Tifa, Final Fantasy 7
"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at, but... at least I always fought for what I believed in." -Gray Fox -Metal Gear Solid
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Alucard, Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
"If you want to be a hero, you need to have Dreams, and Honor." -Angeal from Crisis Core
"A real man doesnt need to read the future, He makes his own."-Solid Snake
"Believing in your friends and embracing that belief by forgiving failure. These feelings have vanished from our hearts. "-Igos du Ikana from Majora's Mask
"But, my, you sure have managed to make quite a number of people happy. The masks you have are filled with happiness. This is truly a good happiness."- Happy Mask Salesman from Majora's Mask
"Would you kindly...?" - Atlas in Bioshock
"A man chooses; a slave obeys" - Andrew Ryan in Bioshock
"I've never felt truly alive unless I was staring death in the face" - Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid
"You mustn't allow yourself to be chained to fate. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What's important is that you choose life..and then live.." Naomi in Metal Gear Solid
"I am the Architect of my own Destruction" - Prince in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
"The athourities said the changes, the monitoring, baning and regulations, were for the greater good. But good, isnt the same as right" in Mirror's Edge
"Fools set the rules in this world. Just take a look around. It's undeniable."-Noctis
"HEY! LISTEN!" –Navi from The Legend of Zelda
"Everything is teetering on the edge of everything.” Spec Ops: The Line
“The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.” -Half-Life 2
"You can't break a man the way you do a dog or a horse - the harder you beat a man, the taller he stands.” -Far Cry 2
" I need a weapon" -Master chief from Halo 2
"Don't make a girl a promise... If you know you can't keep it." - Cortana from Halo 2
"Bet you can't stick'em." –Cortana
"Prepare for unforseen concequences" - G.Man in Half-Life2:Episode 2
"It's over 9000 !!!!!!!!!!!" –Vagita
"You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here . . . I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me." - Richard Feynman
"Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know." - Richard Feynman
“AREEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!” -Kratos from God of War
"..." - Gordon Freeman from Half life
"Fus ro dah!!!" – Dovahkiin
"It’s dangerous to go alone; take this!” -The Legend of Zelda on NES
"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life." -James Kirk
"Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind."-Data
"A little suffering is good for the soul."-Kirk
"A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away." -Dr. Boyce
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." –Spock
"All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars." –Kirk
"Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth, or by misleading the innocent."-Spock and McCoy
"The heart is not a logical organ."-Dr. Janet Wallace
"When a child is taught ... its programmed with simple instructions, and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of what it was taught, thinks independently."-Dr. Richard Daystrom
"Change is the essential process of all existence."-Spock
"Many Myths are based on truth."-Spock
"Winners do not do different things, but do things differently" -Kannika Nirai Vaani
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." -Napoleon Hill
"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do."-Albert Gray
"Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey."Douchan Gersi
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."-William Hazlett
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back."-Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." -Harriet Woods
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -Roger Bannister
"Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." -Special Olympics Motto
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose." -Woodrow Wilson
"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself."-Paul Bryant
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -Vincent Lombardi
"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game." –Voltaire
"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?" -Vincent Lombardi
"Winning is not a sometime thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -Vincent Lombardi
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is." -Zig Ziglar
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." -George S. Patton
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to possess it." -Napoleon Hill
"Show me someone who enjoys losing, and I will show you a loser." -Scott Davis.
"If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk." -Bill Rodgers
"Triumph is just try with a little umph added." -Unknown Author
"If you're not going to play to win, you might as well hold the Olympics in someone's back yard." -Jessie Owens
"First, they ignore you. Second, they laugh at you. Third, they fight you. Finally, you win."-Gandhi
"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -Unknown Author
"The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race." -Nellie Hershey Tullis
"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet." -German proverb
"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory."-Zig Ziglar
"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else." -John Madden
"I became an opimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else." -Earl Weaver
"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." -Robert Schuller
"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."-George Schultz
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." -Napoleon
"You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark. Whoever that man is, he's going to change the world."-Jonathan Kent from The Man of Steel
"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."-Lord John Russell