Proverbs Wisdom Quotes

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.

All worries are less with wine.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

Great losses are great lessons.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.

I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void.

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

Hunger gives flavour to the food.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Life doesn't offers charity, it offers chance.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

When you speak, always remember that God is one of your listeners.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

By living a life based on wisdom and truth, one can discover the divinity of the soul, its union to the universe, the supreme peace and contentment which comes from satisfying the inner drive for self discovery.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

It is better to give others a piece of your heart than a piece of your mind.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

The darkness is needed for the light to shine

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

Show me a ten-foot wall and I'll show you an eleven-foot ladder

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were...two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.

There’s a Chinese proverb that says “Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you & embracing those that strengthen you” Your mind is like a Ferrari (Or your favorite car) it is Awesome!...but if you put sand on the gas tank it won’t run. Don’t put sand (negativity) on your mind. Think positive, encouraging, uplifting thoughts, & the negative will soon evaporate.

An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.

An old Celtic proverb boldly places death right at the center of life. ‘Death is the middle of a long life,’ they used to say. Ancient people did things like that; they put death at the center instead of casting it out of sight and leaving such an important subject until the last possible moment. Of course, they lived close to nature and couldn’t help but see how the forest grew from fallen trees and how death seemed to replenish life from fallen members. Only the unwise and the overly fearful think that death is the blind enemy of life.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

When God brought the first man his spouse, he brought him not just a lover but the friend his heart had been seeking. Proverbs 2:17 speaks of one's spouse as your "'allup," a unique word that the lexicons define as your "special confidant" or "best friend." In an age where women were often seen as the husband's property, and marriages were mainly business deals and transactions seeking to increase the family's social status and security, it was startling for the Bible to describe a spouse in this way. But in today's society, with its emphasis on romance and sex, it is just as radical to insist that your spouse should be your best friend, though for a different reason. In tribal societies, romance doesn't matter as much as social status, and in individualistic Western societies, romance and great sex matter far more than anything else. The Bible, however, without ignoring the importance of romance, puts great emphasis on marriage as companionship.

As we actually taste the flavor of what he's teaching, we begin to see that it's not proverbs for daily living, or ways of being virtuous. He's proposing a total meltdown and recasting of human consciousness, bursting through the tiny acorn-selfhood that we arrived on the planet with into the oak tree of our fully realized personhood. He pushes us toward it, teases us, taunts us, encourages us, and ultimately walks us there.

May Hegel's philosophy of absolute nonsense - three-fourths cash and one-fourth crazy fancies - continue to pass for unfathomable wisdom without anyone suggesting as an appropriate motto for his writings Shakespeare's words: "Such stuff as madmen tongue and brain not," or, as an emblematical vignette, the cuttle-fish with its ink-bag, creating a cloud of darkness around it to prevent people from seeing what it is, with the device: mea caligine tutus. - May each day bring us, as hitherto, new systems adapted for University purposes, entirely made up of words and phrases and in a learned jargon besides, which allows people to talk whole days without saying anything; and may these delights never be disturbed by the Arabian proverb: "I hear the clappering of the mill, but I see no flour." - For all this is in accordance with the age and must have its course.

I really feel sorry for the many men who are surrounded by people who flatter them all the time. In Chinese we have a golden proverb: "The true friend is the one who shows you how to bow down. Because you cannot enter the cave of treasures without bowing at the opening. And the true enemy is the one who flatters you. Because you cannot enter the cave of treasures standing tall with pride." At the end of the day, it is those that flatter you who keep you away from the true treasures in your life. In the culture we all live in today, we are taught to surround ourselves by people "who believe in us". That is true to some extent. But in reality, there are many times when the people around us ought to slap us in the face because we are being idiots. This seems to be particularly prevalent amongst men. In their quest to build a kingdom, they surround themselves with peasants. But this is not how to build a kingdom. In order to build a kingdom, surround yourself with knights. True friends who will protect you, even if it means protecting you from your own wayward self.