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.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Luc de Clapiers
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Teaching is listening, learning is talking.
Deborah Meier
Deborah Meier
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Only stupid people don't change their minds.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Selling is the art of asking the right questions to get the minor yeses that allow you to lead your prospect to the major decision. It's a simple function, and the final sale is nothing more than the sum total of all your yeses.
Tom Hopkins
Tom Hopkins
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Spirit over mind. Mind over matter. It's that simple.
Sathira Ron Dule
Sathira Ron Dule
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The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Culturize: To cultivate a community of learners by behaving in a kind, caring, honest, and compassionate manner in order to challenge and inspire each member of the school community to become more than they ever thought possible.
Jeremy Cadd
Jeremy Cadd
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Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.
Rose Wilder Lane
Rose Wilder Lane
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There is nothing more powerful than the made up mind.
Lewis Gordon
Lewis Gordon
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The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy and his followers do the same. Be watchful and keep that in mind.
Patience Johnson
Patience Johnson
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Out of sight is out of mind.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
William Lawrence Bragg
William Lawrence Bragg
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Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.
Yip Harburg
Yip Harburg
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The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.
Richard DuFour
Richard DuFour
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Learning is a consequence of thinking.
David Perkins
David Perkins
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Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power?
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez
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The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.
Charles Hodge
Charles Hodge
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I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.
Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen
Fred Allen
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I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.
Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness
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Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!
James A. Murphy III
James A. Murphy III
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Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block
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Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique.
Catrina Riser
Catrina Riser
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Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body.
John Hagelin
John Hagelin
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Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that even if we don't understand the bigger picture at the time, has a significant role in what's to come in the future.
Sia Connor
Sia Connor
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The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.
Steve Kerr
Steve Kerr
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Fear is the mind-killer.
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
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Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.
William Herschel
William Herschel
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Trusting God is the answer. He will never let you down.
Larry Burkett
Larry Burkett
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Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.
Cynthia Lewis
Cynthia Lewis
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I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking. I am going to bury you.
Seve Ballesteros
Seve Ballesteros
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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert Sawyer
Robert Sawyer
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No one can take your story from you if you know how to wield words. Their voices may be many but yours will be honest. You have the power to right wrongs and sing truths. You still have the pen in your hand no matter what you choose to do with it
Unknown
Unknown
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Henry Ford said, 'If you think, you can; or if you think you can't, either way you are right.
Santoor Nar
Santoor Nar
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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan
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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink
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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan
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Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
John Travolta
John Travolta
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To think deeply of simple things.
Arnold Ross
Arnold Ross
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Realization is more important than understanding.
John de Ruiter
John de Ruiter
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Finding the good inside can often come from asking ourselves one simple question: "What is my most generous interpretation of what just happened?
Becky Kennedy
Becky Kennedy
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I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich
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I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
Andie MacDowell
Andie MacDowell
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Start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy.
Rhonda Byrne
Rhonda Byrne
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Our thoughts make us what we are.
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
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The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.
Gregory Colbert
Gregory Colbert
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The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes.
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
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