Quotes on wisdom

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

Voltaire

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

Bruce Lee

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Bram Stoker

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

Paulo Coelho

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

John Keats

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”

Roy T. Bennett

“May you live every day of your life.”

Jonathan Swift

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”

Amit Ray

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

Bruce Lee

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Socrates

“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”

Amit Kalantri

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

Walt Whitman

“You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward”

Don Miguel Ruiz

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”

Sarah Dessen

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

Albert Einstein

“If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”

Jodi Picoult

“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”

Wendelin Van Draanen

“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Imagine others complexly.”

John Green

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

Amit Kalantri

“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”

Fredrik Backman

“If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.”

Askhari Johnson Hodari

“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.[]”

Siddhārtha Gautama

“Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.”

Anna Godbersen

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”

Brian Tracy

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

Shannon L. Alder

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”

Jess C Scott

“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”

Amor Towles

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

Paulo Coelho

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

Eckhart Tolle

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”

Charles Schultz

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.”

Richard Bach

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”

C.G. Jung

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”

Heinrich Heine

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

Harper Lee

“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”

Jess C Scott

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,Love is knowing I am everything,and between the two my life moves.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”

Lao Tzu

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”

Charlotte Brontë

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”

Wil Zeus

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”

Eric Berne

“Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.”

Brian Tracy

“Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”

Jim Rohn

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”

Andrew Clements

“The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.”

Hasan Al-Basri
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