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.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
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You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.
Erin Morgenstern
Erin Morgenstern
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
Unknown
Unknown
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They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
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I don't think all writers are sad," she said. "I think it's the other way around - all sad people write.
Larry Leav
Larry Leav
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The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Gustave Le Bon
Gustave Le Bon
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Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.
Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.
Norm MacDonald
Norm MacDonald
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Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt
Theodore Levitt
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
William Golding
William Golding
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I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
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I learn something new every day.
Stan Getz
Stan Getz
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I sit before flowers, hoping they will train me in the art of opening up. I stand on mountain tops, believing that avalanches will teach me to let go. I know nothing, but I am here to learn.
Bruna Kovacic
Bruna Kovacic
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Richard Hamming
Richard Hamming
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R.D. Laing
R.D. Laing
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Question everything generally thought to be obvious.
Dietor Rams
Dietor Rams
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Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!
Tenzin Gyatso
Tenzin Gyatso
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Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke
John Locke
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Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.
Al Ries
Al Ries
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Liberated relationships are one of the ways we actually create abundant justice, the understand that there is enough attention, care, resource, and connection for all of us to access belonging, to be in our dignity, and to be safe in community.
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If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart
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When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity.
Unknown
Unknown
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Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday
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School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto
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Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.
Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Irma Phillips
Irma Phillips
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There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.
Dipa Ma/Vimala Rangachar
Dipa Ma/Vimala Rangachar
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The more you learn, the less you fear.
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
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The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert
Brian Herbert
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The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.
Chuck Missler
Chuck Missler
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Deny your emotions and act like you have answers.
Bill Burr
Bill Burr
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Those who never change their minds, never change anything.
Winston S. Churchill
Winston S. Churchill
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People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
Peter Watts
Peter Watts
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
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There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.
Avicenna
Avicenna
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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
Ray Ash
Ray Ash
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The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges
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Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.
James Randi
James Randi
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The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.
Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn
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The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
Steven D. Levitt
Steven D. Levitt
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