Pearls Of Wisdom Quotes:

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Philosophy, About Success

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

- Epictetus

topic: Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge, Pearls Of Wisdom

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Truth, Kings And Love, Knowledge And Ignorance

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

- Andrea Pirlo

source: "ANDREA PIRLO EXCLUSIVE: I almost quit after losing to Liverpool in the Champions League final, Ferguson was a purple-nosed boss of 'battleship', how I nearly won the double at Chelsea... and why Hodgson called me a '****head'". www.dailymail.co.uk. April 14, 2014.

topic: Lessons, Pearls, Littles, Moral Obligation, Pearls Of Wisdom

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Life, Motivational, Wisdom, Antithesis, World Religions

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Freedom, Social Equality, Social Injustice

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

- Benjamin Franklin Fairless

topic: Wisdom, Advice, Pearls, Pearls Of Wisdom

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

- Michele Gorman

source: Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.17, Penguin UK

topic: Dream, College, Advice, Walt, Pearls Of Wisdom

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Wisdom, Islamic, Grief, Get Him Back, Islamic Wisdom

I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

- Thom Yorke

topic: Hate, Cancer, Men, Pearls Of Wisdom, Self Absorbed

The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?

- Larry Sabato

topic: Political, News, Pearls, Pearls Of Wisdom, Big News

As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

- Johnny Marr

source: "Johnny Marr interview: A guitar hero who serves the song". Interview with Greg Kot, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2013.

topic: Welcome Back, Pearls Of Wisdom