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 truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
Keith Ablow
Keith Ablow
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Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.
Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin
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Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.
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Think like a publisher. not a marketer.
David Meerman Scott
David Meerman Scott
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Part of the problem is that we tend to think that equality is about treating everyone the same, when it's not. It's about fairness. It's about equity of access.
Justin Heumann
Justin Heumann
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It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann
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Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It's made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom's words and know that something better is meant to come my way.
Marissa Kass
Marissa Kass
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Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air – it's in and around us.
Sandra Dodd
Sandra Dodd
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Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too Even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to Quickly I'm learning to love again All I know is I'mma be ok.
Lauren Layne
Lauren Layne
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Essentially, 'mindfulness' means having a deeper awareness of what is. Mindfulness entails being aware of our thoughts, feelings and body sensations as they arise in the present moment.
Christopher Dene
Christopher Dene
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
Andrew Young
Andrew Young
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong: but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
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You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.
John Knowles
John Knowles
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Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best answer I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston
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Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
Abu Hurairah
Abu Hurairah
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fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you've learned about the grand themes of life.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
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I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes
René Descartes
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley
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When you become pure awareness and you just observe what "is" with your attention turned inward, and you really tap
into that essence of pure consciousness.
into that essence of pure consciousness.
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I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman
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Truth isn't in accounts but in account-books.
Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey
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Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham
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Human beings aren't rational animals: we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
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Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
Marylin Jager Adams
Marylin Jager Adams
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The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, than ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.
Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard
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Never put a question mark where God puts a Period.
Richard Petty
Richard Petty
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
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Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg
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Sincerity is moral truth.
George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes
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Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
Jennifer Chiaverini
Jennifer Chiaverini
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I am reckless, yes, but not thoughtless.
Sushant Singh Rajput
Sushant Singh Rajput
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Mahatma Mahesh Yogi
Mahatma Mahesh Yogi
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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz
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I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.
Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson
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A jealous and a narrow-minded person stay empty of feeling and thought-ability; it is a natural penalty.
Imam Sajjad
Imam Sajjad
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I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama
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I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Hertz
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A secure base is a prerequisite for a child's ability to explore, develop, and learn.
Amy Levitt
Amy Levitt
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Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.
Dean Cavanagh
Dean Cavanagh
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If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
J. Reuben Clark
J. Reuben Clark
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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
Paul Russell
Paul Russell
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Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes
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Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.
Alexander Lebed
Alexander Lebed
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Always tell the truth and be true.
Emily Saliers
Emily Saliers
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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
Maurice Switzer
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To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.
Tom Spanbauer
Tom Spanbauer
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Truth builds trust.
Marilyn Suttle
Marilyn Suttle
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You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will help you through when you've done all you can do. If you can't cope, I will dry your eyes I will fight your fight. I will hold you tight and I wont let go.
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