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.

Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
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The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right.
Gratia Mugadza
Gratia Mugadza
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The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult: the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Alden Nowlan
Alden Nowlan
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Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.
Unknown
Unknown
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The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
Sam D. Shimmon
Sam D. Shimmon
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner
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Chance favors the connected mind.
Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
John Fowles
John Fowles
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Act quickly, think slowly.
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.
Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber
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As known unknowns become known: unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Huston Smith
Huston Smith
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It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trodden. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
James Campbell Brown
James Campbell Brown
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
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Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.
Don Peppers
Don Peppers
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I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact some of them are rather slow. This is not a bad thing: they are slow because they think deeply and carefully about mathematics.
Unknown
Unknown
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Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby.
Ludacris
Ludacris
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In the province of the mind, there are no limits.
John C Lilly
John C Lilly
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
Mary Catherine Bateman
Mary Catherine Bateman
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The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
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311
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry
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I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Veroni
Ken Veroni
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If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
Amar Bose
Amar Bose
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If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?
Paul Mayer
Paul Mayer
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Violence is never the answer.
Stuart Gibbs
Stuart Gibbs
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Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.
Dane Rudhyar
Dane Rudhyar
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Theodore Isaac Rubin
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When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max Born
Max Born
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Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.
Jain Banks
Jain Banks
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Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are
contained and the mind is relaxed.
contained and the mind is relaxed.
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Good questions inform, great questions transform.
Ken Coleman
Ken Coleman
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Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
Emily Post
Emily Post
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On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything.
Ian McGilchrist
Ian McGilchrist
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Robert Greene
Robert Greene
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You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
John Romera
John Romera
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Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola
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Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
Buddha
Buddha
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Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt
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It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.
Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick
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A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Charles Ervin Wilson
Charles Ervin Wilson
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You're a legend in your own mind.
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan
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It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley
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The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
Jean Robinson
Jean Robinson
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What do you think you're doing?
Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch
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Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.
Roger Schank
Roger Schank
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You will learn by reading, but you will understand with love.
Shams Tabrizi
Shams Tabrizi
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The lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of Understanding" - The Kybalion.
Unknown
Unknown
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