Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (14)
Quotes about Wisdom

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The River of Life flows eternally,
with infinite strength,
but with no convictions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby

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

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)

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

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop

Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel

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

To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel

Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber

The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas

It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

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

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz

'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron

He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable;
they turn their efforts toward changing it.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

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