Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (15)
Quotes about Wisdom

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous

I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)

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

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

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

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

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

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

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius

There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen

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

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb

A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz

All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

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

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

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

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

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

Anger burns, resentment smolders.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper

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