Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (13)
Quotes about Wisdom

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus

He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright

He who conquers others is strong;
He who conquers himself is mighty.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

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

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a fine line between
the perseverance of the courageous tortoise
and the habit of the stubborn donkey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy

One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein

Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu

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

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind

Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin

All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine

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

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath

What I recognized is that you can't put it together.
It's already together, and what you have to do
is experience it being together.
- Werner Erhard

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

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

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

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