Sophocles Quotes

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Wisdom
  • Turn
  • Wounds

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • You

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Find

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Follow

• The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Wisdom

• By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Spring
  • Alchemy
  • Great Secret

• The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered.

  

  Dr. John
  • Energy
  • Color
  • Influence

• And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Long
  • Wonder
  • Comfort

• I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Game
  • Freedom
  • Rules

• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wisdom
  • Happiness