Wisdom Quotes - Page 10

• One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Perspective, Giving

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  Harold Geneen

  Difficult, Performances

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• If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Ignorance, Teach, Ifs

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• Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

  Ian Lowe

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Yoga

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• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

  William Saroyan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Witty

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Change, Believe

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Passion, Heart

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• A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Life, Wise

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

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• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Country, Patriotic

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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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

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Beach

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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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

  Wise, Patience, Men

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• Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

  Umar

  Life, Islamic, Luxury

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• O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

  Rabia Basri

  Spiritual, Religion, Paradise

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Philosophy

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Lonely, Philosophy

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positive, Trust

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Wise, Meaningful, Truth

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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