wisdom
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘wisdom’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” -Elizabeth Kenny
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.” -Charles Dickens
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“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” -Jim Carrey
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“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” -John Wooden
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” -Saint Augustine
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“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” -Ayn Rand
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“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.” -Joey Adams
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“If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” -Lord Byron
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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” -Socrates
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“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.” -Khalil Gibran
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“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The doors of wisdom are never shut.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.” -Herb Caen
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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” -Plato
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“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.” -Publilius Syrus
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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” -Robert Frost
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“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” -Archimedes
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“Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.” -Joan Rivers
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“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” -Confucius
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” -John C. Maxwell
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“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.” -Phil Jackson
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“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” -Lao Tzu
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“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” -Abraham Maslow
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“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.” -Katharine Graham
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“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” -Ben Hogan
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” -Henry Ford
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“Experience is not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens to you.” -Aldous Huxley
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Michael Jordan
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“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” -Moliere
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” -Nelson Mandela
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“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” -Lucille Ball
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“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” -Jim Rohn
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“The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.” -William Arthur Ward
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein
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“Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.” -Peter Conrad
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“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.” -Confucius
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