Wise Quotes

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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. -Gautama Buddha
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. – Helen Keller
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
Be the Peace You Wish To See In the World! – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. – Duke of Wellington
Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes. -Anna Brownell Jameson
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. – Julian Assange
The frustrating part of being tagged ‘controversial’ is people go looking for trouble where there isn’t any to look for. -Salman Rushdie
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. -Rowan Williams
I’d love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I’d love to discuss that with him – what a fantastic conversation! -Isabella Rossellini
Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. – Michio Kaku
Never did nature say one thing and wisdom another. – Edmund Burke
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it were real, so he escapes suffering”. – Buddha
He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books. – Benjamin Franklin
It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. – Paulo Coelho
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
The wisest of the wise may err. – Aeschylus
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. – Mahatma Gandhi
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility: and he who knows most knows best how little he knows. – Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom at times is found in folly. – Horace
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. – William Shakespeare
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows; In every rill a sweet instruction flows. – Edward Young
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.- Thomas Szasz
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’. – John Greenleaf Whittier
How strange is it, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty. – Ann Radcliffe
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. – Lao Tzu
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucius
Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out. – John Wooden
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. – David Wilkerson
Everyone in life is going to hurt you; you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain. – Erica Baican
Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, love protects you from age. – Jeanne Moreau
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” – Erich Segal
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater” – J. R. R. Tolkien
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. – Carl Sagan
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. – Charles Dickens
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford
You can never plan the future by the past. – Edmund Burke
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. – Dalai Lama
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time – Betty Smith
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. – John Ray
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. – Sophocles
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson
Wisdom is the daughter of experience. – Leonardo Da Vinci
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim; accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself. – Harvey Fierstein
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
Be gentle with the earth. – Dalai Lama
When you give up your own truth to win at someone else’s game everyone loses. – Stephen C. Paul
Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz,
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. – Isaac Asimov
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. – Rumi
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unrivalled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. ― Gautama Buddha
Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean. ― Bob Dylan
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. – Alan Wilson Watts
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. ― Gautama Buddha
This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness. ― Dalai Lama XIV
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. – Denis Waitley
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can be only learned the hard way. – Al Franken
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well” – Voltaire
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
You can never plan the future by the past. — Edmund Burke
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up. – John C. Maxwell
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. – Lou Holtz
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.―Paulo Coelho
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. -Maurice Switzer
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. – William Shakespeare
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). – Mark Twain
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. – Isaac Asimov
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. – John Lennon
In a good book room, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. – Mark Twain
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle,
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. – Paulo Coelho,
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. – Albert Einstein
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope’. – Alexandre Dumas
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back. – Abigail Van Buren
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. ―Irving Berlin
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. ― Haruki Murakami
Only the dead have seen the end of war. ― Plato
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows. In every rill a sweet instruction flows.– Edward Young
It’s not the load that weighs you down, it’s how you carry it. – C.S. Lewis
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. – Harper Lee
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein
There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mahatma Gandhi
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson Wise men make more opportunities than they find. – Francis Bacon
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer. – Gary Keller
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. – Dale Carnegie

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