100+ Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

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The Master said, A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.(Analects 2.11)

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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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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.

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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

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I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

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It takes a very long time to become young.

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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

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We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

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Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

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Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

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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.

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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

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

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Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

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Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

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When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

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The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

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The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

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