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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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
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“If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.”
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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
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“There is nothing permanent except change.”
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“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”
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“It's a good thing to be satisfied with what one has.”
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“Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.”
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“To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
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“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”
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“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
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“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
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“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
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“Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.”
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“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”
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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
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“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
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“Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.”
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“You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.”
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“Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.”
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“Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.”
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“The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.”
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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
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“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
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“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
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“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”
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“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.”
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“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
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“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?”
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“A single lamp may light hundreds of thousands of lamps without itself being diminished.”
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”
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“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.”
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
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“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
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“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”
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“In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas.”
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“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
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“Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.”
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“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
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“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”
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“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”
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“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
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“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
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“The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.”
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“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
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“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”
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“The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.”