Wise Quotes - Page 5

• The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

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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

  Wisdom, Time, Learning

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

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• He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Heaven, Fool

  "Le Droit du Seigneur", IV. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 283-285), 1922.

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Dream, Anger

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Wisdom, Mistake, Character

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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Witty, Plato

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Sad, Losing A Loved One

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• It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

  Jerome Cady

  Stupid, Men, Ends

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• Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

  Claude Bissell

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Money should be used to help others.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Wisdom, Money, Helping Others

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• Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Being Yourself

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• Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fall, Looks, Conflict Resolution

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• Look for the answer inside your question.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Clever, Looks

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• Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

  Alan Alda

  Wisdom, Smart, Intelligence

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wisdom, Emo

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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• Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

  Bill Cosby

  Heart, Victory

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• No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Demise, Mortals

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• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Life, Dream, Bad Ass

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• For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Race, Class

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Positive, Wisdom, Art

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Positive, Encouraging, Confidence

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• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

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• An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

  John Junor

  Wisdom, Facts, Emotion

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