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 sound body keeps a sound mind.
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier
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Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
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I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.
Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker
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When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.
C.P. Cavafy
C.P. Cavafy
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May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
Sean Connery
Sean Connery
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It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Ernie Harwell
Ernie Harwell
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The only stupid question is the question that is never asked.
Ramon Bautista
Ramon Bautista
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Mental strength is more powerful than physical strength - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.
Kailin Gow
Kailin Gow
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All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler
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You have to learn how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Lou Priella
Lou Priella
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I think you never stop learning.
Norman Foster
Norman Foster
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Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
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The truth can't be hidden for long.
William Shatner
William Shatner
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
Oliver Bell
Oliver Bell
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Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
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Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.
Ben Franklin
Ben Franklin
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When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.' It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.
Mary Meili
Mary Meili
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Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.
Prentice Mulford
Prentice Mulford
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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld
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The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
Chip Heath
Chip Heath
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I hate that word - "lucky". It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega's with dinners - I don't think I felt myself lucky back then. Sitting in my car, eating a hot dog while it was snowing outside, and turning down commercials when they wanted a repercussion saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So don't say I'm lucky. I'm not lucky. I worked hard. I found them. For some reason, I found them, and they found me.
Unknown
Unknown
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt
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Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll
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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Miles Kingston
Miles Kingston
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
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Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.
Sadman Graham
Sadman Graham
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If you can learn how to use your mind, anything is possible.
Wayne Met
Wayne Met
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You don't need a reason to help people.
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane
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I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley
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An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
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Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.
Ana Butaric
Ana Butaric
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You know the phrase "Don't shoot the messenger?" Edmondson says. "In fact, it's not enough to not shoot them. You have to hug the messenger and let them know how much you need that feedback. That way you can be sure that they feel safe enough to tell you the truth next time.
Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle
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I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco
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A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
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When fear knocks, let faith answer the door.
Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts
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Questions are creative acts of intelligence.
Francis Kingdon Ward
Francis Kingdon Ward
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman
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None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
Keith Johnstone
Keith Johnstone
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As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.
David Sedaris
David Sedaris
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You're not really an adult at all. You're just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don't understand.
Dylan Moran
Dylan Moran
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A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.
Caroline A. Nelson
Caroline A. Nelson
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Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen.
Unknown
Unknown
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I thought to myself: if it's true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.
Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh Hedayat
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