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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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
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“Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.”
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“Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.”
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“Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?”
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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
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“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
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“Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.”
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“Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning, and which permeates all heaven.”
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“We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.”
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“I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.”
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“Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.”
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“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.”
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“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.”
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“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
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“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.”
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
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“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”
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“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”
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“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
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“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
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“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
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“It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”
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“Wisdom often times consists of knowing what to do next.”
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
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“Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.”
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“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
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“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
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“Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men.”
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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
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“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
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“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
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“When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.”
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
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“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
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“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.”
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“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”
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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
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“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
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“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
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“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”
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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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“All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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“Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.”
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”