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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“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“The root of suffering is attachment.”
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“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
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“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
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“Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.”
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“As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.”
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“Once you label me you negate me.”
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
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“Be the chief but never the lord.”
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“As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.”
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
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“If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.”
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“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
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“Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.”
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“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
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“It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.”
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“He who knows himself is enlightened.”
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“I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.”
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.”
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“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
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“Leave no stone unturned.”
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“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
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“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
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“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”
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“If you want to go east, don't go west.”
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“He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.”
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“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”
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“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
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“Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.”
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“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.”
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“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
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“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
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“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”
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“If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future.”
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“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
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“They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.”
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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
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“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
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“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”
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“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
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“A wise person should be urgently moved on occasions that make for urgency.”
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“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
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“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”