Top 621 Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is knowledge worn smooth by experience. The quotes gathered here span centuries of philosophy, faith, and hard-won insight: distilled thoughts on how to think clearly, live deliberately, and see the world as it is.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Malcolm S. Forbes
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
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It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
Gabor Mate
Gabor Mate
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Learn continually. There's always "one more thing" to learn.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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Think of the solution. not the problem.
Terry Goodkind
Terry Goodkind
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler
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Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant
Will Durant
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
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Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
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Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Plutarch
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.
Peter Senge
Peter Senge
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The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that's the only time everything will be okay.
Michael A. Singer
Michael A. Singer
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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
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
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Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
St. Vincent de Paul
St. Vincent de Paul
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Hindu Guru
Hindu Guru
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
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Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie
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Think for yourself and question authority.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.
Louise Hay
Louise Hay
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If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.
Unknown
Unknown
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Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
Bruce H. Lipton
Bruce H. Lipton
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We have to learn to walk before we can run.
E.L. James
E.L. James
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Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek
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The truth is, you don't need the Lord to do anything for you. He's already done His part. You've already got it, whatever "it" is.
Andrew Wommack
Andrew Wommack
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As I say I don't want to kill myself. I just wouldn't mind dying.
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler
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The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
B. B. King
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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
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Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives but most importantly, just think.
Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
CG Jung
CG Jung
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All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
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Assume nothing, question everything.
James Patterson
James Patterson
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To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
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The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger
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A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
Immortal Technique
Immortal Technique
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
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You are wherever your thoughts are, make sure your thoughts are where you want to be.
Nachman of Breslov
Nachman of Breslov
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