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The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember, every one of us is responsible to make it a joyful place. — Debasish Mridha
How prepared are we for our exist out of the world? — Lailah Gifty Akita
Love! In this world of pain, you’re my vintage wine. — Debasish Mridha
You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision. — E.A. Bucchianeri
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. — Chanakya
When we learn to use the power of love then the world will see the peace. — Debasish Mridha
Your world is your story with tragedies and triumphs; never forget that you are the editor too. — Debasish Mridha
Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions. — Auliq Ice
Because the moon has always been to him the lamp of wisdom, a symbol of the right way to see the world. — Dean Koontz
Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world. — Heraclitus
Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world. — Andrea L’Artiste
Dream for life; dream for love; dream for a better world. The purpose of life should not be only to achieve silver and gold. — Debasish Mridha
There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi. — Frederick Lenz
In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.
-Kikyo — Rumiko Takahashi
The best beauty in the world is the beauty of kindness. — Debasish Mridha
There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude. — Bryant McGill
All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority. — Thomas Reed
She looked as if she knew exactly when the world would end. — Katlyn Charlesworth
Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
To find a peaceful world, a man of wisdom creates peace within himself. — Debasish Mridha
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. — Huston Smith
We are scrambling desperately to make sense of our life and our world. — Debasish Mridha
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. — Francis Of Assisi
The fact of your heart’s enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world. — Eric Micha’el Leventhal
The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Love! In this world of sorrow, you’re my source of joy. — Debasish Mridha
No wisdom of the world teaches us more than true love can teach us. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do. — Marcus Garvey
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception. — Suzanne Curchod
The world bears the Gospel a grudge because the Gospel condemns the religious wisdom of the world. — Martin Luther
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom. — Shakti Gawain
My writings are reflections of my momentary thoughts, imaginations, and love for you and life in this world as a whole. — Debasish Mridha
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young. — Madame De Stael
The point of overcoming great challenges isn’t to make a million dollars or change the world. The point is to gain strength and wisdom within. — Kevin Cole
What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? — Sandra Chami Kassis
In politics you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that. — Auliq Ice
…political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take. — Radhe Maa
Muslim and non-Muslim from across the world flocked to Baghdad to be part of Al-Ma’mun’s project «Bait Al-Hekmah» or «House of Wisdom — Firas Alkhateeb
Radiate your lights of love to enlighten the whole world, like the sun. — Debasish Mridha
If everyone’s purpose of life is to be happy, kind, caring, and compassionate, this world will become heaven. — Debasish Mridha
When you feel weak, energize yourself with the power of love, love everyone and everything, this world will be yours. — Debasish Mridha
A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles. — Belsebuub
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom. — Apostolos Doxiadis
The morning sun will bring you a fresh new day with a fresh new world of possibilities. — Debasish Mridha
A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love. — Susan Barbara Apollon
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world. — Matthew Kelly
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. — Albert Einstein
Don’t ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world. — Abhijit Naskar
Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. — Raheel Farooq
A lover ties the world together with the thread of pure love. — Debasish Mridha
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[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets … — William Jones
Offer a wise man to be the king of the world, he will refuse it because wisdom is already a kingdom and the king is the kingdom itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
When you create opportunities for others, whole world becomes your window of opportunity. — Debasish Mridha
This world is fucking crazy. — Coughlan
Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. — Alex Grey
Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you. — Ricky Maye
The world would be a far better place if more people listened to the wisdom of Hawkeye Pierce. — Michel Templet
… People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world. — Zhuangzi
Moon reveals it’s beauty in darkness to illuminate the world with the light of love. When humanity suffers, let us be like the moon. — Debasish Mridha
Great places, great memories. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy
now i am old
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad — Roseville Nidea
When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness. — Debasish Mridha
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle — Radhe Maa
Be a lady? Forget it. Ladies don’t last a day in the real word. No one’s a lady anymore. Why do you think we get our claws polished? — Crystal Woods
All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Top 100 World Of Wisdom Quotes
#1. Let us make this world a house of love and peace.
Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice.
Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice.
Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#2. Let me guess,» the frog interrupted,»Like every other human explored I’ve even met, you want to know the meaning of life.»
«I didn’t-«
«The answer’s forty-four. The machine was off by two» the frog snapped, «Believe me, it makes a world of difference… — Author: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
#3. And yet we check and chide
The airy angels as they float about us,
With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow
The same tame slaves to custom and the world. — Author: Frances Sargent Osgood
#4. To do nothing is to welcome Dante’s hell — cramped and starving, weltering in Sin. And so boldly I have taken action. Some will recoil in horror, but all salvation comes at a price. One day the world will grasp the beauty of my sacrifice. — Author: Dan Brown
#5. Believers in progress rightly note that in the world of machines the new model supersedes the old; from this they falsely infer a similar kind of supercession in such things as virtue and wisdom. — Author: C.S. Lewis
#6. As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists — that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know. — Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
#7. The world cannot be translated;
It can only be dreamed of and touched. — Author: Dejan Stojanovic
#8. All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom! — Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. We need to empower the world with the power of love. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#10. If one of the most interesting places to be is your inner world, you will never be bored when you are alone. — Author: Sahara Sanders
#11. He said that that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is only the picture of the world in men’s hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it. — Author: Cormac McCarthy
#12. We came to this world with love and hope to bloom like a flower, to beautify this garden we call earth, and spread the fragrance of happiness. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#13. The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance,
when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter — Author: ‘Abd Allah Ibn ‘Amr Ibn Al-‘As
#14. Let us create the tsunami of love to flatten the world with joy. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#15. Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration. — Author: Klaus Schwab
#16. New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young. — Author: Madame De Stael
#17. The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands. — Author: Euginia Herlihy
#18. Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can. — Author: George Allen, Sr.
#19. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world — a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. — Author: Buddha
#20. Science is never rigid, it is flexible. It can bend towards any direction that ultimately tends to do good to humanity. Religion must learn the same. And the moment any religion learns that, it would become the most scientific religion in the world. — Author: Abhijit Naskar
#21. This world is fucking crazy. — Author: Coughlan
#22. But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father’s story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can’t understand one without the other. — Author: Thomas Hughes
#23. Thor might be god of strength and war, Odin of wisdom, but he sometimes wondered if it wasn’t Loki, the trickster god, who stood behind what unfolded. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom. And hadn’t the world proved to be a bitter joke? — Author: Mark Lawrence
#24. I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge? — Author: Jonas Salk
#25. Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed. — Author: John O’Donohue
#26. He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on. — Author: Julia Ward Howe
#27. The sacred servant communicates the sacred words to the souls of the world. — Author: Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
#29. I discovered that the wisdom of the world, and a great deal of its folly also, is to be found in the pages of books. And — Author: C.S. Lewis
#30. The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. — Author: Benjamin Franklin
#31. Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — Author: John Keats
#32. now i am old
older enough to have known the world
and i am sad — Author: Roseville Nidea
#33. Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only-
then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy — Author: Leo Tolstoy
#34. I have not been called
to the wisdom of this world,
but to a God who’s calling out to me
And even though the world may think
I’m losing touch with reality,
it would be crazy
to choose this world over eternity. — Author: MercyMe
#35. Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all — considering the options, the positives and the negatives — and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world. — Author: Laurence Overmire
#36. I love young people because they are always looking ahead, and older people because they can look back; and both make sense of the world so economically. You can learn so much from the wisdom of the young and the old. I’m just in between! — Author: Polixeni Papapetrou
#37. The Resurrection is most clearly needed and most clearly revealed in those communities that are constantly seeking to correct and transform the world through the wisdom and power of the Word of God made flesh in their lives and actions in history. — Author: Megan McKenna
#38. Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It’s not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for. — Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
#39. I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce — Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle — Author: Radhe Maa
#41. Education is the light of our soul and joy of our life. We enlighten ourselves and the world with our education. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#42. Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. — Author: Raheel Farooq
#43. Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty. — Author: Abu Dhar Al-Ghifari
#44. I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity — that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence. — Author: Mairead Corrigan
#45. In politics you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that. — Author: Auliq Ice
#46. One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy’s world. — Author: Baden Powell De Aquino
#48. A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed. — Author: Nichiren
#49. Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages — available to everyone, free of charge! — Author: Linda Sue Park
#50. If everyone’s purpose of life is to be happy, kind, caring, and compassionate, this world will become heaven. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#51. When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#52. The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is «not» in their destiny. — Author: Idries Shah
#53. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that’s the attitude of a young person who hasn’t a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after. — Author: Arnold Palmer
#54. The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence. — Author: Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#55. Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God. — Author: Radhe Maa
#56. Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go. — Author: Abhijit Naskar
#57. Smiles are the dance of our soul,
with the music of love,
to express the beauty of mind,
for the happiness of spirit,
and for the joy of the world. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#58. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly. — Author: Abhijit Naskar
#59. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received? — Author: Juana Ines De La Cruz
#60. Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world — every defect in the society shall be healed. — Author: Abhijit Naskar
#61. The morning sun will bring you a fresh new day with a fresh new world of possibilities. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#62. Assuming, as you grow older, that you’re the guardian of the world’s wisdom, even if you haven’t necessarily lived enough to know what’s right and wrong. — Author: Paulo Coelho
#63. She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit. — Author: Richard Ronald Allan
#64. The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Author: Andy Rooney
#65. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life’s contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace. — Author: Alaric Hutchinson
#66. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores. — Author: Dave Barry
#67. Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place, rightly exercised under the Cross, will find nourishment. — Author: John Woolman
#68. If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world! — Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. It’s time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith. — Author: Abhijit Naskar
#70. I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity. — Author: Leonard Seet
#71. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever. — Author: Michelle Bachelet
#72. To fill the world with joy and happiness give the gift of love and kindness. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#73. No one’s life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are. — Author: Dean Koontz
#74. If one does not get it into his head from the very beginning that the world is full of unseemly situations, for the most part his demeanour will be poor and he will not be believed by others. — Author: Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#75. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world. — Author: James Hollis
#76. It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. — Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#77. It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future… undaunted by fear and lies. — Author: Ted Naifeh
#78. But still,» Ayumi said, «it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.»
«You may be right,» Aomame said, «But it’s too late to trade it in for another one. — Author: Haruki Murakami
#79. One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world. — Author: Abhijit Naskar
#80. It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding. — Author: Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#81. Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world. — Author: Saint Augustine
#82. Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion. — Author: Sorin Cerin
#83. You are God’s design to decorate this world. You are a repertoire of wisdom and an encyclopedia of God’s knowledge. — Author: Ikechukwu Joseph
#84. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother’s womb again — Author: Munia Khan
#85. Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don’t make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare. — Author: Donald Goines
#86. There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment — Author: Carlos Castaneda
#87. The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that
He might illuminate the world by His wisdom
and excite it to the love of Himself. — Author: Peter Abelard
#88. When you have nothing but love, then you’re the richest person of the world. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#89. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#90. The world would be a far better place if more people listened to the wisdom of Hawkeye Pierce. — Author: Michel Templet
#91. To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world. — Author: Alan Cohen
#92. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom. — Author: Shakti Gawain
#93. Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord’s power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great. — Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. The Talmud states, «Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. — Author: Bridges McCall
#95. The Bible This Book [is] the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is Wisdom; this is the royal Law; these are the lively Oracles of God. — Author: Anonymous
#96. The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free. — Author: Frederick Lenz
#97. And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities — interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. — Author: Rowan Williams
#98. This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain. — Author: Rumi
#99. Before leaving the world, leave a profound positive mark of love upon the world. — Author: Debasish Mridha
#100. A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop’s wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service. — Author: Richard Carmona
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The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work your hands. — Euginia Herlihy
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. — Robert Frost
Philosophy has been described as thinking about thinking, and all Christians should do that. The term comes from two Greek words, philia («love») and sophia («wisdom»), thus «loving wisdom.» Nothing anti-Christian appears in that definition. Problems arise if we seek wisdom apart from God, or elevate human reason above Him, but according to Proverbs 4:5-7, God’s people should love and seek wisdom.
Formal philosophy is divided into three major areas-incidentally, all core Christian issues: (1) Metaphysics,
which asks questions about the nature of reality: «What is real?» «Is the basic essence of the world matter, or spirit, or something else?» (2) Epistemology, which addresses issues concerning truth and knowledge: «What do we know?» «How do we know it?» «Why do we think it’s true?» (3) Ethics, which considers moral problems: «What is right and wrong?» «Are moral values absolute or relative?» «What is the good life, and how do we achieve it? — Rick Cornish
Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect each other against the man-world. But it was not so. It seemed like their great birth pains shrank their hearts and their souls. They stuck together for only one thing: to trample on some other woman … whether it was by throwing stones or by mean gossip. It was the only kind of loyalty they seemed to have. Men were different. They might hate each other but they stuck together against the world and against any woman who would ensnare one of them. — Betty Smith
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it’s driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let’s face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true. — Jamaica Kincaid
I am the God of the universe, maker of heaven and earth. I designed your body, I fashioned your world, I created your potential. I have wisdom and guidance and love that I long to communicate to you but I can’t get through. Your heart and life are too noisy, and I will not scream. I love you. But you need a button for — John Ortberg
Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure. — Socrates
I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being. — Virginia Satir
I think that when people read fiction, they’re really reading for wisdom. I am. That’s what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it’s because there’s something in it that we didn’t know already. Not just information but really wisdom — sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience. — Barbara Kingsolver
We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and «modern.» This is unmistakable proof of the youthfulness of human consciousness, which has not yet grown aware of its historical antecedents. — C. G. Jung
Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the Universe, we must assume, might have made the world and man perfect, free from evil and from pain, as angels in heaven are thought to be; but although this was not done, man has been given the power of advancement rather than of retrogression. The Old and New Testaments remain, like other sacred writings of other lands, of value as records of the past and for such good lessons as they inculcate. Like the ancient writers of the Bible our thoughts should rest upon this life and our duties here. «To perform the duties of this world well, troubling not about another, is the prime wisdom,» says Confucius, great sage and teacher. The next world and its duties we shall consider when we are placed in it. — Andrew Carnegie
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. — Paulo Coelho
In a world pulsating with so much information, the only information that you need is the stuff that will lead you straight to your own soul. Think of this: Most of the information that is fed to you, is motivated by the desire to earn money. Forget what the magazines say, what the forums say, what all the experts say. Your soul does not need to be spoon-fed with stuff it doesn’t need. Your soul needs to be seen and found, and what leads you to that, is the only information that you need. — C. JoyBell C.
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world — a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. — Buddha
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. — Eric Clapton
A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light. — Kem Nunn
One of life’s greatest paradoxes is that it’s in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender. Not all pain and suffering, certainly. If that were the case, the whole world would be tender, since no one escapes pain and suffering. To these elements must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Together they lead to wisdom and tenderness. — Brennan Manning
I grew up around some great philosophers: they were coal miners and cowboys born in the 1920s. They were also vets of World War II. Listen to your elders, there isn’t any better wisdom for you. — Stanley Victor Paskavich
Be kind! Go and burn the world with the fire of your love. — Debasish Mridha
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. — Ezra Stiles
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one’s own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans. — Beatrix Of The Netherlands
Your thoughts have the power to control; our being, our emotions, and the way we view the world that surrounds us. If you don’t constantly re-think what you think of on a daily basis, how do you ever expect to evolve into a being of; wisdom, truth, understanding, love, and above all, to be there for others? — Martin R. Lemieux
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed. — Nichiren
Person’s life goes like a dream. In order to understand its sense we must wake up. External changes are useful when they go out From the inner world of a person. Everything that is or isn’t in this world, it is here, it is in the soul of each person. — Anastasia Novyh
Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending. — George Sheehan
True closeness respects each other’s space.
You can never get any measuring instrument to compare and set on a pedestal how one truly cares for you in any kind of relationship.
There is a big difference between closeness and dependency,
compassionate, honest, generous, humble heart than
prejudiced, jealous, insecure heart.
Each one should respect the growth of a relationship as we all evolve in a world interconnected with many hearts, minds and souls. — Angelica Hopes
Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. — Nancy B. Brewer
Because that happened to me when I was little, this is how I will now treat other people»; «Because so and so beat me up and hurt me a long time ago, that gives me the right to treat people the way I treat them, today»; «Because life was hard on me, life should be hard on everyone else around me» — does this sound/ look familiar? It’s called victim mentality. When people choose to be the direct product of everything that happened to them, the direct product of every single pair of hands that hurt them. And the world, to these people, must bend over backwards in order to accommodate their wounds. Some people don’t want to be loved; they just want to make the world pay. — C. JoyBell C.
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.
MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.
CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.
MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.
CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.
MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed.
CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying.
MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing.
CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding … planet-cremating.
MORPHEUS: I am the Universe
all things encompassing, all life embracing.
CHORONZON: I am Anti-Life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds … of everything. Sss. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?
MORPHEUS: I am hope. — Neil Gaiman
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world … in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison. — Henry David Thoreau
Jaden felt their boredom, their tired eternity. Beyond that, she felt their dying essence. They were immortal — all-powerful beings — and yet they were powerless against the onslaught of ever-changing time. They were lost in a modern world, one they didn’t have the energy to understand. And, in being lost, they were immobilized against it. Not even their judgments could assuage their exhausted wisdom of forever. — Michelle M. Pillow
Every one of the world’s «great» religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain
from cosmology to psychology to economics
has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture.
Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music. — Sam Harris
People is wise ’cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience — from knowin’ each day is a gift and accepting it with gladness. You read a whole lot of books, and readin’ sure has made you smart, but ain’t no book in the world gonna make you wise. — Beth Hoffman
History foretells that when you give an ordinary person the wisdom of what is right and the dignity to follow his or her heart, the world as we know it changes or goes through a phase — Dew Platt
In the West, we have become addicted to work. Americans now work the longest hours in the world. And the result is not health, wealth and wisdom, but rather a lot of anxiety, a lot of ill health and a lot of debt. — Tom Hodgkinson
A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop’s wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service. — Richard Carmona
Excellence is the result of loving more than others think is necessary, dreaming more than others think is practical, risking more than others think is safe, and doing more than others think is possible. Every day is a golden opportunity to learn, practice gratitude, and positively impact the world around you. Do not ask for instant fulfillment in your life, but for patience to accept your current frustrations. Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom to make better choices. Do not ask for more before saying, «THANK YOU» for everything you have already received. — John Geiger
Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Our world is moving so fast and we are apt to miss so much of what is happening «right now.» If we can put down our smart phones for one moment and be present to what is around us, I believe these incidental meetings and strangers who come into our lives can give us unexpected fortitude, perspective and even wisdom just when we need them the most — if we are just awake, aware and open to these new insights. — Kristin S. Kaufman
The continuum of infinite, immortal Life is occasionally interrupted by a brief stroll into a body of highly limiting thought. Jim Young, Author of ‘Aware in a World Asleep’ and more! — Jim Young
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect. — Plato
John, the self-made man, self-made in every sense, out of nowhere, penniless, parentless, tie-less … but I’ve always thought of him as if he had come into the world like Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, who sprang forth from Jupiter’s head, fully grown and fully armed. — Ayn Rand
This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain. — Rumi
Looking around today, I see a lot of young people who act as if they have all the time in the world, and older persons who think this attitude is alright. It is unfortunate that there are young citizens who still believe life begins at forty and that life before forty is non-scoring, and older citizens who still insist that unless you are old, you have nothing to offer, equating age with wisdom. — Nana Awere Damoah
One last mystery: on one of the little ponds, this morning, I saw wind riffling the first of the waterlily leaves. They haven’t all emerged yet, but new circles tattoo the water, here and there, a coppery red. When the wind lifted their edges, each would reveal a little shadowy spot, a dot of black which seemed to flash on the water, and so across the whole surface of the pond there was what could only be described as the inverse of sparkling; a scintillant blackness. Shining blackly, black but rippling, lyrical: the sheen and radiance of death-in-life.
Is that my work, to point to the world and say, See how darkly it sparkles? — Mark Doty
The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit. — Marc Allen
Contrary to popular wisdom, you cannot hide from evil in the practice of evil. You can no more master the horrors of the world by immersing yourself in them then one can master an earthquake by standing in front of a collapsing building every Tuesday to see where one gets hit, or if, and when, or how badly. Trauma is not tenderized one itty bit by inviting the host in repeatedly. — John Thomas Allen
The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should look after the lower, angels execute the divine plan for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home. — Thomas Aquinas
Compassion is the feeling of sympathy which the pain of one being awakens in another; and the higher and more human the beings are, the more keenly attuned they are to re-echo the note of suffering, which, like a voice from heaven, penetrates the heart, bringing all creatures a proof of their kinship in the universal God. And as for man, whose function it is to show respect and love for God’s universe and all its creatures, his heart has been created so tender that it feels with the whole organic world … mourning even for fading flowers; so that, if nothing else, the very nature of his heart must teach him that he is required above everything to fe the brother of all beings, and to recognize the claim of all beings to his love and his beneficence.
Horeb, Chapter 17, Verse 125 — Pirkei Avot
Knowledge is
Bought only with a weary care,
And wisdom means a world of pain. — Joaquin Miller
Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style. — Jonathan Raban
Many verses of the holy books, above all the Upanishads of Sama-Veda spoke of this innermost thing. It is written: «Your soul is the whole world.» It says that when a man is asleep, he penetrates his innermost and dwells in Atman. There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees. — Hermann Hesse
God and Goddess, I greet you at the start of another day and ask that you send me the best day possible. Help me to feel my best so I might do my best for myself and for others. Send me the strength and energy to do the things I need to do, and the focus and creativity to do them well. Help me to let go of all those things that no longer work for my benefit so I might move in the direction of perfect health and perfect balance. Help the world move in a better direction, and watch over me and those I love. Please send me prosperity and healing, patience and wisdom, serenity and faith. … So mote it be. — Deborah Blake
The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God’s traffic control tower of the world. We don’t get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight. — Jeffrey Meyers
The world of books is the wealth of being. — Lailah Gifty Akita
O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me. — Rabia Basri
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young. — Madame De Stael
The fact is that when the frequency of your DNA hits the Schumann Resonance, your experience of time stops completely. These are truths that are still experienced and embodied by many of the indigenous cultures alive on our planet today. To live closely to the earth’s natural rhythms is to experience the wisdom and clarity that comes of moving more slowly through the world. — Richard Rudd
Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loitered and erred. «Is perhaps our generation free from irrationality and error? Have we perhaps reached now the summit of human wisdom, and need no more to look out for mental or physical improvement?» Undoubtedly, we are never so visionary as to be prepared for what the next hour may bring forth. — Henry David Thoreau
A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and participating. He should not be afraid of reading too much or too little. He should take his reading as he does his food or his exercise. The good reader will gravitate to the good books. He will discover from his contemporaries what is inspiring or fecundating, or merely enjoyable, in past literature. He should have the pleasure of making these discoveries on his own, in his own way. What has worth, charm, beauty, wisdom, cannot be lost or forgotten. But things can lose all value, all charm and appeal, if one is dragged to them by the scalp. — Henry Miller
Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now. — Abhijit Naskar
My grandfather told me all the world’s problems come from us thinking we own pieces of the Earth, but we’re pieces of her. Wilfrid — Eleni Papanou
Your self-worth and self-esteem cannot be changed by doing positive affirmations. If that were the case many people would be super confident and are not. It may appear to work for some, but only because they have already faced the hurts inside that have caused low self-worth and low self-esteem, and are ready to feel differently.
Acknowledging the pain and the suffering that take place inside you, and allowing the feelings, will take time, but this new way of handling these feelings will change the way you relate to you and to the outside world. — Kelly Martin
Freedom from stress, freedom from anxiety, freedom from depression; freedom is autonomy from all that stagnates growth in this ever complex and noisy world. By the fear of being in the unknown, we often overlook and forget the serene view of being on the raft: the glowing virgin stars, the gentle ways that the waves moves, and the endless possibilities that exist under the sun. The fundamental principle of freedom is to be lost and our state of mind never differs too far from this analogy of being stranded in the middle of the ocean. — Forrest Curran
But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know me, live with me in the world of my mind. — Orson Scott Card
The world cannot be translated;
It can only be dreamed of and touched. — Dejan Stojanovic
One more word about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the scene too late to give it. As the thought of the world, it appears only when actuality is already there cut and dried after its process of formation has been completed …
When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy’s grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Someone has said,»Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one’s ignorance.»..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable. — Charles R. Swindoll
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world. — Saint Augustine
Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world’s collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world. — Thabo Mbeki
In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God’s providence is his estate, God’s wisdom and power are his defence, God’s love and favor are his reward, and God’s word is his security. — Isaac Barrow
I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart
do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart
do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man. — Frederick Exley
Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one’s original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe. — Lao-Tzu
All the world’s follies,» he replied, «turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world’s follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility.» Then — Umberto Eco
You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet. — Pico Iyer
My Mother
My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I’ve ever had in my entire life. She had what it’s called natural wisdom, bless her precious soul. Here some of her teachings: Human Values:
Love: Learn to love because everything that’s based on love has a deep rooted foundation.
Kindness: Be kind all the time but never let anyone take advantage of your kindness.
Peace: Learn to have peace with yourself when the world turns against you because it starts with you.
Honesty: Be honest to yourself and then to the others.
Respect: Respect others and they will respect you.
Openness: Be always transparent especially when you are hurting. Never pretend that it’s all okay.
Loyalty: Always be loyal to your family and make sure your family comes before anything else.
She taught me to learn to compose myself when life gets tough and unfair to me.
I love you mama & Happy Mothers Day — Euginia Herlihy
When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world. — Stephen Levine
To me, the simplest gift that a husband or a wife can do for their partner is to remind them of their precious visions, goals and dreams. What a gift that is to have a voice of reason right in your corner when you sometimes need a little nudge to get back on track. To have a team player to cheer you on and to support your efforts is indeed a massive present from the universe. Whomever has such a gift should surely treasure and protect it for all its worth. It’s worth is invaluable to the world. — Sereda Aleta Dailey
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. — Chanakya
Death is the beginning of a new life, not the end of the life.
You may leave this world but not our heart, you will live there for ever. — Debasish Mridha
Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity — the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom — and reconnects with that world of Spirit. — Malidoma Patrice Some
These civilians are discovering that their place in the world is smaller than they imagined. They do not matter. In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that’s left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines of them. And woe to those who have no use in war except to feed the machines. The — Pierce Brown
My hope is that we can navigate through this world and our lives with the grace and integrity of those who need our protection. May we have the sense of humor and liveliness of the goats; may we have the maternal instincts and protective nature of the hens and the sassiness of the roosters. May we have the gentleness and strength of the cattle, and the wisdom, humility, and serenity of the donkeys. May we appreciate the need for community as do the sheep and choose our companion as carefully as do the rabbits. May we have the faithfulness and commitment to family as the geese, and adaptability and affability of the ducks. May we have the intelligence, loyalty, and affection of the pigs and the inquisitiveness, sensitivity, and playfulness of the turkeys.
My hope is that we learn from the animals what it is we need to become better people. — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Is a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung. — David James Duncan
Belief in Yahweh doesn’t come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry …
To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit beyond the comprehension of our minds … Trusting in Molech … or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect — there’s no difference in God’s eyes. It’s all idolatry. — Lynn Austin
The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it. — Hasan Of Basra
When we focus on winning the battle for material gains,we end up losing spiritual war.If we had a better self of ethics we would be better prepared to deal with the complicated world in which we find ourselves. — David V. Gaggin
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don’t believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage … the sutras say, «Mind is the teaching.» But people of no understanding don’t believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity. — Bodhidharma
The voyages of the great Chinese fleet were missions of exploration and commerce. They were not enterprises of conquest. No yearning for domination obliged Zheng to scorn or condemn what he found. What was not admirable was at least worthy of curiosity. And from trip to trip, the imperial library in Beijing continued growing until it held four thousand books that collected the wisdom of the world.
At the time, the king of Portugal had six books. — Eduardo Galeano
This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don’t give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn’t need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom. — Jon Steele
Don’t try to change the world; just change yourself. Why? Because the whole world is only relative to the eyes that are looking at it. Your world actually only exists for as long as you exist and with the death of you, includes the death of your world. Therefore, if there is no peace in your heart; you will find no peace in this world, if there is no happiness in your life; you will find no happiness anywhere around you, if you have no love in your heart; you will not find love anywhere and if you do not fly around freely inside your own soul like a bird with perfectly formed wings; then there will never be any freedom for you regardless if you are on a mountaintop removed from all attachments to all of mankind! Even the mountaintop cannot give you freedom if it is not already flying around there inside your own soul! So I say, change yourself. Not the world. — C. JoyBell C.
To the USSR on Stalin’s death: Regardless of the identity of government personalities, the prayer of us Americans continues to be that the Almighty will watch over the people of that vast country and bring them in His wisdom opportunity to live their lives in a world where all men, and women, and children, dwell in peace and comradeship. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Is the sunrise of Mount Fuji more beautiful from the one you see in the countryside a bit closer to home? Are the beaches of Indonesia really that much more serene than those we have in our own countries? The point I make is not to downplay the marvels of the world, but to highlight the notion of the human tendency in our failure to see the beauty in our daily lives when we take off the travel goggles when we are home. It is the preconceived notion of a place that creates the difference in perception of environments rather than the actual geological location. — Forrest Curran
I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,» Joseph exclaimed. «If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn’t there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?»
The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said: «There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht — I can see that they already have begun. — Hermann Hesse
In life hard times will befall you that will create doubt in yourself, and life will ask questions of the authenticity of the person you are. Carrying the lotus means being true to yourself and in the realization that you were always meant to grow above this mud. We are meant to grow, progress, and evolve in this relentless environment of the World and through it all achieve happiness with grace in letting go. Carry the Lotus within; grow and rise above from the harsh and remorseless world beneath you. — Forrest Curran
The world is a dangerous place, but there is no better world. Remember, every one of us is responsible to make it a joyful place. — Debasish Mridha
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
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As You Like It
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
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Maurice Switzer,
Mrs. Goose, Her Book
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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Mark Twain
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
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Jess C. Scott,
The Intern
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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Aristotle
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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Socrates
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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Isaac Asimov
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
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John Lennon
“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
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Langston Hughes
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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Mark Twain
“May you live every day of your life.”
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Jonathan Swift
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
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Aristotle,
Metaphysics
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
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Albert Einstein
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
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J.R.R. Tolkien
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
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Paulo Coelho,
The Alchemist
“If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is.”
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Chad Sugg,
Monsters Under Your Head
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
» Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.”
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Alexandre Dumas
“The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.”
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Abigail Van Buren
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
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Isaac Asimov,
Foundation
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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Socrates
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
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Paulo Coelho,
The Alchemist
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
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Patrick Rothfuss,
The Wise Man’s Fear
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
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J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Lord of the Rings
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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Confucious
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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Rumi
“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
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Patrick Ness,
A Monster Calls
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom. Augustine of Hippo
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. Napoleon Bonaparte
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. Witold Gombrowicz
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein
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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. Thomas J. Watson
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. Michel de Montaigne
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Francis Bacon
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. M. Scott Peck
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Zhuangzi
Wisdom sails with wind and time. John Florio
A symptom of wisdom is curiosity. The evidence is calmness and perseverance. The causes are experimentation and understanding. Maxime Lagacé
A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. Pythagoras
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli
There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool. Diogenes
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
Never say no twice if you mean it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Hermann Hesse
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. Leo Tolstoy
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. Buddha
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. Leonard Nimoy
A lot of wisdom is just realizing the long-term consequences of your actions. The longer term you’re willing to look, the wiser you’re going to seem to everybody around you. Naval Ravikant
A weak reaction is to rush things. A strong reaction is to go slow and steady. Maxime Lagacé
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
The best words are the ones you are ready for. Maxime Lagacé
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. David Elton Trueblood
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honoré de Balzac
The wise know they are fools. Fools think they are wise. Maxime Lagacé
Maturity is when you stop being surprised by anything. Wisdom is when you start again. Maxime Lagacé
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. Thomas Moore
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. Plato
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Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise. Paul Engle
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Epictetus
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. Samuel Smiles
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. Gerald Brenan
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. Sophocles
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He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. Benjamin Franklin
Fast thinking looks cool but it’s deep thinking that makes all the difference. And deep thinking is always slow thinking. @TheAncientSage
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. Horace
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. Horace
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. Hal Borland
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go. Jane Fonda
Do now what your future you will thank you for. Maxime Lagacé
First of all, to understand truth you must stand alone, entirely and wholly alone. No Master, no teacher, no guru, no system, no self-discipline will ever lift for you the veil which conceals wisdom. Wisdom is the understanding of enduring values and the living of those values. No one can lead you to wisdom. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. Paulo Coelho (Source)
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of wisdom. Havelock Ellis
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. Herbert Hoover
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. Anatole France
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch
True wisdom is remembering that in the end, no matter what, everything will be fine. Maxime Lagacé
It’s better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people. It’s better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn’t matter. It’s better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain. James Clear
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. William Blake
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. Alfred North Whitehead
The more you know the less you say. Sahil Lavingia (Source)
Don’t try to become, let go of who you’re not. Maxime Lagacé
The truest sayings are paradoxical. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
One principle eliminates a thousand decisions. Johnny Uzan
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. Josh Billings
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal
The wisest of the wise may err. Aeschylus
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. Keith Miller
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. Anatole France
No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. Orison Swett Marden
Kindness is wisdom. Philip James Bailey
Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
The wise are those who know the Self. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world. Democritus
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best words of wisdom will create confusion, action, understanding and ultimately, peace. Maxime Lagacé
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens. Edward de Bono
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. Dakota (Native American saying)
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. Francis Quarles
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. Franz Grillparzer
Wisdom is knowing what to ignore. Shane Parrish (Source)
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. Roal Dahl
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Leo Tolstoy
Wisdom is seeing wounds and obstacles as blessings. Maxime Lagacé
Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance. William Blake
It’s wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. J. R. R. Tolkien
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever
Words should be weighed, not counted. Yiddish proverb
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. William A. Ward
Key Takeaways
- Wise people prefer
- Questions over answers
- Listening over talking
- Doubts over confidence
- Wise people don’t care about
- rewards
- criticism
- what they don’t control
- Keep in mind: life is chaos. Being a little foolish can help.
- Want to become wiser? Forget schooling. Fail, reflect and learn instead.
- Tools to become wise?
- Discipline
- Acceptance
- Meditation (mindful.org)
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Last updated: 01/12/15
We’ve all heard plenty of great words of wisdom, but what about great words about wisdom?
Well, here’s a list of the very BEST quotes we could find about WISDOM from an array of folks who are pretty wise themselves.
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One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything—and one’s last is to come to terms with everything. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. — Doug Larson
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. — Paulo Coelho
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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. — John Buchan
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom. — Aeschylus
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
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Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul. — Edward Counsel
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. — Socrates
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To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than you were before. — Unknown
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience. — Leonardo da Vinci
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There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart. — Charles Dickens
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise. — Sara Teasdale
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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it. — Robbie Gass
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Every wise man lives in an observatory. — Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn. — George Santayana
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Dare to be wise. — Horace
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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust
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Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. — C.G. Jung
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Humility and wonder equals wisdom. — Unknown
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Years teach us more than books. — Berthold Auerbach
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. — John Patrick
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. — Confucius
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — James Boswell
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi
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He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books. — Benjamin Franklin
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Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions. — Cullen Hightower
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The wise talk to themselves. — Unknown
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway
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Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. — Brian Rathbone
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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. — Pierre Abelard
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. — Juvenal
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. — John Stuart Mill
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. — James Huneker
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. — Buddha
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. — William James
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Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah
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A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone. — Unknown
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Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. — Gabriel García Márquez
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No man was ever wise by chance. — Seneca
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Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. — Dan Brown
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H.L. Mencken
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. — Martin H. Fischer
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The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. — John A. Simone
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves. — Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. — Zen Proverb
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. — Samuel Smiles
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Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather. — Czech Proverb
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It is wiser to forgive than to hate. — Unknown
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth. — Sophocles
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Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dearly for it. — Dutch Proverb
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippmann
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. — Horace
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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. — Unknown
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The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others. — Tibetan Proverb
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No one is wise at all times. — Piny the Elder
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. — Sophocles
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare
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There are many gates to the house of wisdom. — Edward Counsel
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All knowledge is not taught in one school. — Hawaiian Proverb
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid. — Unknown
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Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. — William Jordan
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The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can. — French Proverb
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. — Hermann Hesse
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. — William Wordsworth
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We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne
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To realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it—thou art a fool. — Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field. — Isaac Asimov
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It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. — L. Estrange
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr
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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be. — Unknown
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertran Russell
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. — Unknown
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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. — Tobias Smollett
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Wise men know each other. — Edward Counsel
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1. “The best way out is always through.”- Robert Frost
When caught up in an unseemly situation, we usually look for the easy way out. And unfortunately, procrastination is the natural response. This quote serves us with a reminder that perhaps the best route is going “through” the problem, rather than around it. As a result, you find that good things begin to happen when you cease to delay and beat about the bush and take matters into your hand to resolve it.
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2. Carpe Diem – Latin Proverb
Coined in 23 BC by Horace, the term is derived from a poem in the Odes (book 1, number 11), and means “Seize the moment”. The Latin term over the years has evolved into the most quoted Latin phrase because of its implications to capture life’s opportunity and live life to the fullest!
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3. “Always Do What You Are Afraid To Do” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
In each of our lives, there is this one person – if not ourselves – who holds us back in accomplishing our dreams. What better feeling to prove that every person is wrong by conquering your worst fears and doubts.
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According to a study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, reading inspirational quotes can improve people’s mood and increase their resilience to stress.
This suggests that regularly reading words of wisdom can have a positive impact on our overall well-being.
4. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering
Believe that it is absolutely impossible to fail, and you might just start acting as per your thinking as well! In spite of the worries that things may not work out, believe in its possibility, and your actions will reflect this positivity too!
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5. “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
Hunter tells us about how ultimately, our success and failure comes down to us- our hard work, our tenacity, and our perseverance.
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6. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
Your goal may be big, and at times, it may seem impossible and difficult. You will feel like you’re failing and you’re not getting anywhere. But perseverance, belief and conviction in those small steps that you’re taking towards those goals is what you need to be confident about. Consistently follow your life mission, one step at a time, no matter how small the step may be.
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7. “Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their heads turned up way too loud to hear it” – Brian Vaszily
This funny motivational quote by Vaszily succinctly describes how we are the biggest enemies of ourselves, standing in the way of our success and accomplishments. Either we do not understand out true potential, or we begin to doubt our skills. It’s time to put aside all the worries to focus on what and how we can achieve excellence.
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8. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
Every day we see the violence around us. While there is very little that we can do, the Indian political leader says it best. Start with the man in the mirror. Be the change you want to see within others. While you can’t influence the world, you can be a better human, and become the testament of the change.
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9. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
As the weather gets harsher and tougher, it’s time to brace yourself! The difficult times are simply temporary, but it is due to those tough and difficult times that you are stronger today. The best part is that you are now tougher today than you were yesterday! And more importantly, you got through it all. Celebrate your strength!
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10. “You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Words of wisdom to inspire and motivate you
A study by the University of Konstanz found that reading and reflecting on wise sayings can improve cognitive functioning and problem-solving abilities.
This highlights the potential benefits of regularly exposing ourselves to words of wisdom.
11. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
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12. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
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13. “I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them.” – Pablo Picasso
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14. “There are three constants in life…change, choice and principles.” –Stephen Covey
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15. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
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16. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
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17. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” – Rosa Parks
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18. “Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
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19. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
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20. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
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21. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
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22. “You can never plan the future by the past.” —Edmund Burke
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23. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
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24. “Lost time is never found again.” —Benjamin Franklin
25. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” —Robert Frost
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Words of wisdom to broaden your thoughts
A study by the University of California, Riverside, found that individuals who practice daily affirmations are more likely to experience increased life satisfaction and well-being.
Incorporating motivational quotes into daily routines could help improve overall happiness and mental health.
26. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
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27. “No” simply means begin again at one level higher.” – Peter Diamandis
28. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
29. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey
30. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
31. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank
32. “Soon, when all is well, you’re going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.” – Brittany Burgunder
33. “It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.” – Vince Lombardi
34. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
35. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
Words of wisdom to elevate your perspective
Research by the American Psychological Association reveals that positive self-talk, such as engaging with motivational quotes, can lead to better coping skills and stress management.
Incorporating words of wisdom into one’s life can help build resilience in the face of adversity.
36. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” – Confucius
37. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
38. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
39. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
40. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
41. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
42. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
43. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
44. “No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.” – Naval Ravikant
45. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
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Words of wisdom to enlighten you
Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a positive psychology researcher at the University of North Carolina, found that positive emotions, like those elicited by motivational quotes, can broaden an individual’s perspective and help them build valuable skills.
Reading words of wisdom can contribute to personal growth and long-term success.
46. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien
47. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
48. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John C. Maxwell
49. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou
50. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” – Wayne Dyer
51. “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” – George Whitefield
52. “Show the world how much you’ll fight for the winners circle.” – Pat Riley
53. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle Onassis
54. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
55. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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Words of wisdom to live by
In a survey conducted by Pew Research Center, 72% of Americans reported feeling that their personal lives were at least somewhat meaningful.
Sharing words of wisdom can help readers tap into and strengthen their sense of purpose, which can contribute to a greater sense of meaning in life.
56. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein
57. “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day.” – Janis Joplin
58. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw
59. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” – Margaret Fuller
60. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne
61. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” – Oprah Winfrey
62. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
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63. “The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
64. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Mary Engelbreit
65. “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” – Melissa Etheridge
Words of wisdom to elevate your mind
The World Health Organization has identified stress as a leading cause of illness and disability worldwide, with approximately 1 in 5 people experiencing significant levels of stress.
This statistic highlights the importance of mental health and self-care, and can encourage readers to seek out words of wisdom to help them cope with stress and promote well-being.
66. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” —Charles Kingsleigh
67. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer
68. “Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.” —Benjamin Disraeli
69. “Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” —Thomas Carlyle
70. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho
71. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” —Tricia Cunningham
72. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” —Marie Curie
73. “Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” —Farrah Gray
74. “Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” —Neil Gaiman
75. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale
Words of wisdom that will change the way you think
According to a survey conducted by YouGov, the most commonly cited source of inspiration for Americans is their own personal experiences.
This statistic highlights the value of personal growth and introspection, and can encourage readers to reflect on their own experiences and seek out words of wisdom to guide them through life’s challenges.
76. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”― Roy T. Bennett
77. “I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”― Joseph Stalin
78. “Laughter is poison to fear.”― George R.R. Martin
79. “A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.”― Leigh Bardugo
80. “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”― Horace
81. “The well-bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.”― Oscar Wilde
82. “I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
83. “I don’t agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.”― Hark Herald Sarmiento
84. “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”― Jodi Picoult
85. “Love the people who love you back.”― Laura Ruby
Words of wisdom to inspire you to greatness
A study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology found that reading inspirational quotes can increase feelings of hope and optimism.
This statistic can encourage readers to seek out and share words of wisdom, potentially improving their mood and outlook on life.
86. “It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”― Patrick Rothfuss
87. “Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”― Roy T. Bennett
88. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”― Karl Lagerfeld
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89. “No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.”― Michael Bassey Johnson
90. “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”― Marcus Tullius Cicero
91. “Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.”― Suzy Kassem
92. “The wisest men follow their own direction.”― Euripides
93. “Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.”― E.A. Bucchianeri
94. “The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”― Hamza Yusuf
95. “The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.”― Ryan Lilly
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Words of wisdom to empower you
96. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”― Roy T. Bennett
97. “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”― Samuel Lover
98. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”― Steve Maraboli
99. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”― William James
100. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”― Confucius
101. “You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
102. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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103. “In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”― Sophie Kinsella
104. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”― Pablo Picasso
105. “Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”― Bruce Lee
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Powerful words of wisdom
106. “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”― Roy T. Bennett
107. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”― Napoleon Hill
108. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”― Zig Ziglar
109. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”― Jim Rohn
110. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”― Arthur C. Clarke
111. “Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.”― Miguel de Unamuno
112. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”― Wayne W. Dyer
113. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”― Jim Rohn
114. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”― Helen Keller
115. “I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.”― Julie Kagawa
116. “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
117. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
118. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
119. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
120. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln
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Inspirational words of wisdom
121. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” — Dr. Henry Link
122. “Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it, you don’t have a chance.” — Alex Rodriguez
123. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure.” — Confucius
124. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser
125. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
126. “Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” — Jimmy Spithill
127. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso
128. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey
129. “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
130. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” — Oscar Wilde
Words of wisdom about change
131. “Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.” – Jason Lemkin
132. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
133. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
134. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
135. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
136. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein
137. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
138. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
139. “There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
140. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” – John C. Maxwell
Words of wisdom you won’t forget
141. “Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.” —Roy T. Bennett
142. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” —Helen Keller
143. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
144. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
145. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” —Tony Robbins
146. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —Oscar Wilde
147. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” —Stephen King
148. “Your big opportunity may be right where you are standing right now.” —Napoleon Hill
149. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
150. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis
More words of wisdom
151. “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”- Brian Tracy
152. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
153. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”- Rob Siltanen
154. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
155. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”- Dalai Lama
156. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
157. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney
158. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
159. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
160. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Words of wisdom you need to live by
161. “Spread love everywhere you go.” — Mother Teresa
162. “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
163. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
164. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett
165. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler
166. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” — Oprah Winfrey
167. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — Malala Yousafzai
168. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.” — Kesha
169. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
170. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” — Lady Gaga
Short words of wisdom quotes
171. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn
172. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
173. “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” — Walter Scott
174. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” — Lewis Carroll
175. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers
176. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” — Jim Elliot
177. “What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” — Ellen Glasgow
178. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
179. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” — William Arthur Ward
180. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” — John C. Maxwell
Words of wisdom about progress
181. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
182. “A little progress every day adds up to big results.” – Satya
183. “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” – Charles Kettering
184. “Progress is not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
185. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
186. “Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein
187. “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn
188. “Some quit due to slow progress. Never grasping the fact that slow progress is progress.” – Jeff Olson
189. “Progress comes with practice, and practice comes with purpose. Know your “why.”” – Melissa Steginus
190. “Whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King
Motivational words of wisdom
191. “Do the scary thing first and get scared later.”― Lemony Snicket
192. “Don’t work to hard on appearing to be right, but on being right.”― Yuri van der Sluis
193. “Your mistakes can give you best lessons.”― Brajesh Kumar Singh
194. “You have to have drive and commitment – as well as an honest sense of what is and isn’t possible.”― Marcus Luttrell
195. “Look for the miracles in every moment.”― Lailah Gifty Akita
196. “If the journey wasnt challenging the destination wouldn’t be rewarding.
It’s the challenge that makes it great”― Foster Mkhabele
197. “There is no hurdle too high for you to jump over.”― Michael H. Forde
198. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and reality.”― Rodman Lu
199. “No man is a failure, for only he must not quit.”― Davinder Pahra
200. “You don’t know what happiness lies before you yet, you are now only in the commencement of your journey.”― Anne Brontë
Words of wisdom about life
201. “It is intuitive that people who smile and cut out negativity from their life will live longer, healthier lives.” – Deena B. Chopra
202. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
203. “Life doesn’t exist to meet our expectations.” – Jerry Dorsman and Bob Davis, How to Achieve Peace of Mind
204. “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” —Dalai Lama
205. “Living a more positive life comes down to attitude and action.” – Catherine Pulsifer
206. “He that respects himself is safe from others.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
207. “Life is a learning process, and you have the opportunity to make a change right here and now.” – Lori Hill, 5 Gifts to Give Yourself
208. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain
209. “Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
210. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
Deep words of wisdom
211. “Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.” – Paulo Coelho
212. “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”― Maurice Switzer
213. “Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.” – Dalai Lama
214. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”― John Lennon
215. “If we manage ego wisely, we get the upside it delivers followed by strong returns.” – Dave Marcum
216. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ― Isaac Asimov
217. “For me, a sense of prosperity often comes with less rather than more.” – Lori Hill
218. “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”― Martin Luther King Jr.
219. “I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.” – Woodrow Wilson
220. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”― Sharon Salzberg
Words Of Wisdom To Sharpen Your Wit
221. “The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.” — Brian Herbert
222. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee
223. “You don’t get character because you’re successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.” — Herman Edwards
224. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
225. “When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
226. “If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.” — Eckhart Tolle
227. “A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.” — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
228. “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” — William Blake
229. “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates
230. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” — Thomas Jefferson
Words of Wisdom To Give You Joy in What You Do
231. “Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.” — Gautama Buddha
232. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
233. “Control your destiny or somebody will.” — Jack Welch
234. “Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength.” — Laozi
235. “We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.” — A. D. Gordon
236. “Don’t stumble over something behind you.” — Seneca the Younger
237. “It’s less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
238. “To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.” — Paulo Coelho
239. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Seneca the Younger
240. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
Words of Wisdom to Improve Your Thinking
241. “You’ve heard that it’s wise to learn from experience, but it is wiser to learn from the experience of others.” ― Rick Warren
242. “Self-improvement and success go hand in hand. Taking the steps to make yourself a better and more well-rounded individual will prove to be a wise decision.” ― Frank Long
243. “The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.” ― Ivan Panin
244. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ― George Bernard Shaw
245. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” ― Lao Tzu
246. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ― Albert Einstein
247. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” ― Francis Bacon
248. “It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.” ― Manly P. Hall
249. “Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” ― Sophocles
250. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ― Bertrand Russell
Words of Wisdom To Live In The Moment
251. “Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.” ― Ovid
252. “Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.” ― Hypatia
253. “The more you know the less you need to say.” ― Jim Rohn
254. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” ― Khalil Gibran
255. “What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.” ― Marcus Garvey
256. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle
257. “Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.” ― Aristotle
258. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee
259. “Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.” ― Shane Claiborne
260. “It’s never too late to learn.” ― Malcolm Forbes
Words of Wisdom To Sharpen Your Wit
261. “Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.” ― Gautama Buddha
262. “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” ― Socrates
263. “Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.” ― Gautama Buddha
264. “The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.” ― Dalai Lama
265. “Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.” ― Gautama Buddha
266. “You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.” ― Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
267. “Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.” ― Muhammad al-Baqir
268. “Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” ― Plato
269. “Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.” ― Ishida Mitsunari
270. “When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.” ― Hugh Prather
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