Wisdom Quotes - Page 9

• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wine, Wrinkles

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• It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Time, Learning

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

  Horace

  Education, Book, Awareness

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• Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.

  Richard Wilkins

  Inspiring, Success, Dream

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• It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Confidence, Spiritual

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

  Antisthenes

  Life, Truth, Knowledge

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• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Wise, Stupid

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  The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  Carl Sagan

  Understanding, Brain, Use

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• Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

  Philo

  Hope, Giving, Honor

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• If you chase two rabbits,
  you catch none.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Editors, Two

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• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

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• Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

  Francis Hutcheson

  Healing, Mean, Ends

  'An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue' (1725) treatise 1, sect. 5, subsect. 16

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• The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mind, Way, Changing Your Mind

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Witty

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Trust

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Practice, Age, Youth

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• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

  William Blake

  Knowledge, Thought Provoking, Understanding

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Leadership, Greatness

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• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Wise, Writing

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• Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

  Jane Wells

  Islamic, Littles, Compromise

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• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Thinking

  "Scientifically speaking: a dictionary of quotations", Volume 1, (p. 154), 2002.

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