Quotes about Wisdom
Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.'
— Og Mandino
Nature already has supplied me with knowledge and instinct far greater than any beast in the forest and the value of experience is overrated, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.
— Og Mandino
Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
— Og Mandino
When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is
— Og Mandino
The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance.
— Og Mandino
Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.
— Oprah Winfrey
When you know better...You do better.
— Oprah Winfrey
Love is a lesson worth learning.
— Oprah Winfrey
There is not one experience, no matter how devastating, no matter how tortuous it may appear to have been, there is nothing that's ever wasted. Everything that is happening to you is being drawn into your life as a means to help you evolve into who you were really meant to be here on Earth. It's not the thing that matters, it's what that thing opens within you. — Oprah
— Oprah Winfrey
True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.
— Oprah Winfrey
Begin to notice what you have in your life that you are grateful for and when you look at life through the lens of gratitude, you don't see as many obstacles or hindrances. You see potential, you see possibilities. Then you become an open vehicle for more inspiration, more wisdom, more guidance, coming from the spiritual part of your being. — Michael Bernard Beckwith
— Oprah Winfrey
When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
— Oprah Winfrey