Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (11)
Quotes about Wisdom

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha

Related topics: Buddhist Perception Belief

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Slow but steady wins the race.
- Anonymous

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Any statement that is self-serving
is likely to contain untruths.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs

To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

Time cures all things.
- Proverb

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein

Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Be gentle with the earth.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins

Anger burns, resentment smolders.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard

Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner

We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

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