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.

A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions.
Linda Darling Hammond
Linda Darling Hammond
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Always question the authority.
Tom Morello
Tom Morello
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Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
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I think people talk too much, that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
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If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness. - Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts.
David's Rescue
David's Rescue
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They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding
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History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places
Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse
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I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
Charles Williams
Charles Williams
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I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman
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The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.
Unknown
Unknown
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Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith
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There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.
Gabriel Noah
Gabriel Noah
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The knowledge of the soul is knowledge of the universe.
Alexis Karpozilos
Alexis Karpozilos
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You are what you think you are.
Bob Richards
Bob Richards
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Pete Aldin
Pete Aldin
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A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
Ivan Panin
Ivan Panin
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What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.
Yolanda King
Yolanda King
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I like to think of music as an emotional science.
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
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Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
Greg Child
Greg Child
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday
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The greatest battles are fought in the mind.
Casey Treat
Casey Treat
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I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
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To truly understand others, we must first learn to see things from their perspective.
Maximus Freeman
Maximus Freeman
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Art is a line around your thoughts.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt
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When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Ahron Friedberg
Ahron Friedberg
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I am a student of whoever I can learn from.
Rashad Evans
Rashad Evans
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Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.
Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover
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You can't stop the waves. but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky
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The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.
Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
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We used to think that schools built brains. Now we know that it is play that builds the brains that school can then use.
Gordon Neufeld
Gordon Neufeld
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger
Thomas Berger
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One truly understands only what one can create.
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
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I never thought my cotton gin would change history.
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
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I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
Harun Yahya
Harun Yahya
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.
Christine Caine
Christine Caine
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Benach Spinoza
Benach Spinoza
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
John Milton
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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
Wayne W. Dyer
Wayne W. Dyer
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What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
Aden Wilson Tress
Aden Wilson Tress
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim
Peace Pilgrim
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
John Locke
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Harper Lee
Harper Lee
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