Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (9)
Quotes about Wisdom

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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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

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung

Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
- Henry David Thoreau

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous

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

As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

Cooperation is less stressful than competition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- 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

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

It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu

The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle

You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

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

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein

Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

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