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.

It is the search for the truth, not possession of the truth which is the way of philosophy. Its questions are more relevant than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot
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Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
Unknown
Unknown
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I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey
Robert McCloskey
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Calm down, Think different, Find your way...
Arash
Arash
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There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.
Robert Evans
Robert Evans
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Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.
David A. Kolb
David A. Kolb
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The truth about stories is, that's all we are.
Thomas King
Thomas King
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph
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Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.
Leonard Jacobson
Leonard Jacobson
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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben
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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr
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If you want peace, understand war.
B. H. Liddell Hart
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Truth is a great flirt.
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
André Malraux
André Malraux
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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Just close your eyes – and think of England.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
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Rather than thinking to build, build to think.
Tim Brown
Tim Brown
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Fun is just another word for learning.
Raph Koster
Raph Koster
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Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes'.
Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler
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Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.
Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal
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An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.
Marty Hall
Marty Hall
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Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Sarah Caldwell
Sarah Caldwell
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In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion.
In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The mind is like an umbrella. It's most useful when open.
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
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Metacognition is the process of stepping back from the thoughts and getting enough distance to allow us to see those thoughts for what they really are.
Julie Kratz
Julie Kratz
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As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow
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I grow old learning something new every day.
Solon
Solon
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I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Ellis Ross
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I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
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For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex - asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
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It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.
Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour
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The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?
Dan Fogerty
Dan Fogerty
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We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself!
Robert Spence Watson
Robert Spence Watson
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If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.
John Hurt
John Hurt
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
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When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie
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We learn by teaching.
James Howell
James Howell
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If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.
Irene Muzyle
Irene Muzyle
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If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.
Jenny Watson
Jenny Watson
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For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury
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Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.
Steve Young
Steve Young
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Every day you learn something new.
Dennis Brown
Dennis Brown
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