Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (6)
Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

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

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

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

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

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

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

He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

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

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

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

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

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

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb

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

He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny

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

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A.A. Milne

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift

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

Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

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

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy

An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

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

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