Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (7)
Quotes about Wisdom

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin

Every dog has his day.
- Proverb

Life is empty and meaningless
because life is empty and meaningless.
- Werner Erhard

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

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

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 words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel

If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin

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

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

The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

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 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

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

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

What we think, we become.
- The Buddha

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

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

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

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

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

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

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

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

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
- Lao Tzu

We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander

Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

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