Wisdom quotes
551 quotes. Authors include Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Maslow, Aeschylus, Aesop, Afrika Bambaataa, Akhenaten, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Pope, Alexandre Dumas, Amber Valletta, Amelia Earhart, Anatole France, Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Anton Chekhov, Archimedes, Aristotle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Audrey Hepburn, Augustine of Hippo, Avery Brooks, Ayn Rand, Baltasar Gracián, Barack Obama, Barbara De Angelis, Basil of Caesarea, Ben Fountain.
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“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
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“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.”
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“Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!”
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
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“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
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“It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity.”
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“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
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“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
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“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”
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“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
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“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
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“You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.”
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“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
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“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.”
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“All things change; nothing perishes.”
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“Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
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“Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.”
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“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
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“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
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“I, too, do not envision a doctrine of self the clinging to which there would not arise sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair.”
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“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
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“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
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“A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing.”
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“We are wiser than we know.”
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“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.”
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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
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“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
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“It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
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“And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.”
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“Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”
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“All phenomena are preceded by the mind, created by the mind, and have the mind as their master.”
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“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
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“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
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“There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.”
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“From wonder into wonder existence opens.”
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“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
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“Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.”
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“Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.”
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“Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.”
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“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”
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“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”
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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
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“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”
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“Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.”
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“Wisdom begins at the end.”
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“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”