Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (3)
Quotes about Wisdom

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Philosophy

It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene

In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein

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

What is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb

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

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

The well-timed question is more impacting than an answer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein

I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

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

When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass

It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

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

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle

Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha

Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb

You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young

Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

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