Quotes and sayings about tag  wisdom

352 Quotes

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Stephen Hawking

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Stephen King

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

Steven Moffat

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

Tad Williams

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Terence McKenna

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

Terry Pratchett

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Thomas à Kempis

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine

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