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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“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”
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“'As I am, so are they; as they are, so am I.' Comparing others with oneself, do not kill nor cause others to kill.”
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
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“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world…”
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“I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.”
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“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
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“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
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“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
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“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
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“To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.”
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“No man was ever wise by chance.”
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
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“Do not scorn what you have received, nor envy the gains of others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
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“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.”
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“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
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“At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are, and you know what you want.”
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“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
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“Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.”
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“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.”
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“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
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“Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.”
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“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
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“Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.”
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“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
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“I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.”
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“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
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“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
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“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox”
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“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
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“A noble one produces an abundance of merit by having a compassionate mind towards all living beings.”
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“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
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“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”
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“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
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“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.”
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“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
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“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”
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“There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.”
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“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
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“To see things in the seed, that is genius.”
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“Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if already dead.”
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“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
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“When in doubt, don't.”
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“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
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“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
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“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue”