Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (12)
Quotes about Wisdom

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

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

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare

The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

Neither blame or praise yourself.
- Plutarch

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

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

He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir

What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green

The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain

Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung

No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie

There are all kinds of futures.
There is a hoped-for future,
there is a feared future,
there is a predictable future,
and there is an unimagined future.
- Werner Erhard

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard

He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

When we have arrived at the question,
the answer is already near.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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