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.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.
Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey
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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Eudd
Eudd
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To understand all is to forgive all.
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
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Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.
Robert Thurman
Robert Thurman
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Mind Your Own Business.
Stieg Larsson
Stieg Larsson
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott
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If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.
Hank Williams Sr.
Hank Williams Sr.
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Ultracrepidarianism: the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.
Lori Gottlieb
Lori Gottlieb
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Learn the way and find your own way.
Jet Li
Jet Li
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Learning is not a destination, it is a continuous process.
Kevin Horsey
Kevin Horsey
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Continue to study and learn new skills.
Edie McClurg
Edie McClurg
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Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly - about any subject at all.
William Zinsser
William Zinsser
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Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
Allan Lokos
Allan Lokos
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Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
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I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
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The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.
Viktor Schauberger
Viktor Schauberger
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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky
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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent Gyorgyi
Albert Szent Gyorgyi
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Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.
James Bryce
James Bryce
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God's mighty power comes when God's people learn to walk with God.
Jack Hyles
Jack Hyles
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato The Elder
Cato The Elder
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Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
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They don't think it is like it is, but it is.
Oscar Gamble
Oscar Gamble
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
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Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Duke of Wellington
Duke of Wellington
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
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Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
Sushanth Mullapudi
Sushanth Mullapudi
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You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette
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A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.
Mufti Ismail Menk
Mufti Ismail Menk
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle
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It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
Garth J. Steadman
Garth J. Steadman
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Better think while it's still legal.
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu
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We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio
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As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
John Glenn
John Glenn
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Knowledge is the key to freedom. It turns frustration into fulfillment, sweat into sweet. Nothing approximates the power of Knowledge. It is the key to dominion.
Danial D. Oyeleke
Danial D. Oyeleke
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Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes, it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy.
Tony Corcoran
Tony Corcoran
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Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.
Neil Postman
Neil Postman
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If there's one thing I've learned in my long life, it's that every villain thinks they're the hero of their own story.
Soman Chainani
Soman Chainani
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
John Cage
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When all think alike. then no one is thinking.
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
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Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality.
Marci Shimoff
Marci Shimoff
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
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Music is the medicine of the mind.
John Logan
John Logan
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational: the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
Jon Andry
Jon Andry
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When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
Pitacus Love
Pitacus Love
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Think twice, code once.
Waseem Latif
Waseem Latif
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Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
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