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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“No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.”
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“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
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“When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.”
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“The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.”
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“Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.”
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“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
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“Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others”
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
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“The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.”
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“Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.”
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“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
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“Each day provides its own gifts.”
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“All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.”
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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
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“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
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“People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.”
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“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.”
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“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
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“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”
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“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
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“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
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“It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”
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“Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.”
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“We must become the change we want to see.”
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“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
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“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
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“The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
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“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
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“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.”
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“He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
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“Silence is a source of great strength.”
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
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“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
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“Conditions fall apart. Persist with diligence.”
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“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
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“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
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“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”
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“Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.”
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“In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.”
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“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”