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 sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
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“Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.”
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“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
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“By nature, man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.”
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“Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, upon hearing which one attains peace.”
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“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
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“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
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“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
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“Honesty is the best policy.”
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“The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe.”
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“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”
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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
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“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
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“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
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“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
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“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
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“Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”
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“Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”
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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
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“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
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“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”
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“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”
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“To support mother and father, to cherish partner and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.”
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“Whatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness & benefit.”
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“Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.”
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“I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.”
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
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“When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.”
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“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.”
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“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”
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“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
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“Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.”
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
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“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.”
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“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
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“Don’t sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that.”
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”
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“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
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“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
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“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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“We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.”
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“Everyone in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.”
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“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
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“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
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“You should ignore that person’s impure behavior by way of speech and body, and focus on the fact that they get an openness and clarity of heart from time to time. That’s how to get rid of resentment for that person.”