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01) ”It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” -Leo Tolstoy
02) ”You do not write your life with words, You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” -Patrick Ness
03) ”By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” –
04) ”Angry people are not always wise.” -Jane Austen
05) ”Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” -Rumi
06) ”There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” -Patrick Rothfuss
07) ”The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” -Paulo Coelho
08) ”Turn your wounds into wisdom.” -Oprah Winfrey
09) ”The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates
10) ”The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.” -Abigail Van Buren
11) ”Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” –
12) ”Think before you speak. Read before you think.” -Fran Lebowitz
13) ”The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” -Paulo Coelho
14) ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle
15) ‘Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” –
16) ”May you live every day of your life.” -Jonathan Swift
17) ”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.” -Mark Twain
18) ”Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” -John Lennon
19) ”The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” -Isaac Asimov
20) ”The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” –
21) ”Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” –
22) ”When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” -Jess C. Scott
23) ”It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” -Maurice Switzer
24) ”The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” –
25) ”The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” -Maya Angelou
25) ”There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.” -Paulo Coelho
26) ”He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.” –
27) ”I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” -Bruce Lee
28) ”We learn from failure, not from success!” -Bram Stoker
29) ”The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” -Voltaire
30) ”Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” –
31) ”The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” -Thomas Paine
32) ”You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” –
33) ”Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.” –
34) ”We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” -Leo Tolstoy
35) ”Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” -Jimi Hendrix
36) ”Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.” – Bob Marley
37) ”Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” -Truman Capote
38) ”The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.” -Marjorie Pay Hinckley
39) ”You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” -Colette
40) ”The past has no power over the present moment.” –
41) ”Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” -Paulo Coelho
42) ”It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” -Albert Einstein
43) ”The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” -Albert Einstein
44) ”Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” –
45) ”Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” -Roy T. Bennett
46) ”The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
47) ”God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” -Elbert Hubbard
48) ”Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.” -Martin Luther King Jr
49) ”Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.” -Brian Tracy
50) ”Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.” -Elizabeth Gaskell
51) ”If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
52) ”Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
53) ”Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” -Anne Bradstreet
54) ”Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” -Stephen Hawking
55) ”You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” -Sharon Salzberg
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56) ”There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.” -Laurell K. Hamilton
57) ”Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.” -Patrick Rothfuss
58) ”Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.” -Oscar Wilde
59) ”Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” -Socrates
60) ”Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.” -Margaret Drabble
61) ”The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” -Marcus Aurelius
62) ”We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” -Oscar Wilde
63) ”The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” -H.L. Mencken
64) ”Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” -Hermann Hesse
65) ”Music is, A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy.” -Ludwig van Beethoven
66) ”It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” -Amit Ray
67) ”People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” -Jean Jacques Rousseau
68) ”He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
69) ”Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” -Albert Einstein
70) ”The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.” -George Orwell
71) ”The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” -Theodore Roosevelt
72) ”Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.” –
73) ”A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -Francis Bacon
74) ”Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.” -A.A. Milne
75) ”Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.” -Rumi
76) ”It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.” –
77) ”Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” -Thomas Jefferson
78) ”Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.” -Leo F. Buscaglia
79) ”Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” -William Shakespeare
80) ”A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.” -Roy T. Bennett
81) ”It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
82) ”wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” -Gabriel García Márquez
83) ”The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.” -Dan Millman
84) ”A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” -Baltasar Gracian
85) ”“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.” -William Arthur Ward
86) ”The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” –
87) ”It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!” –
88) ”It takes a very long time to become young.” -Pablo Picasso
89) ”People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” -Michel Foucault
90) ”We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
91) ”Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” -Brian Tracy
92) ”Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” -Karl Lagerfeld
93) ”You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” –
94) ”Education is no substitute for intelligence.” –
95) ”You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” –
96) ”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
97) ”A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” -William James
98) ”It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.” –
99) ”You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” -Siddhārtha Gautama
100) ”Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.” –
101) ”There are no ordinary moments.” -Dan Millman
102) ”If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” -Milton Berle
103) ”We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.” -Heinrich Heine
104) ”Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.” -Bob Dylan
105) ”Lost time is never found again.” -Benjamin Franklin
106) ”Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” –
107) ”A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.” -Dhammapada
108) ”The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” –
109) ”Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.” –
110) ”Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” -Wallace Stegner
111) ”Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.” -Epicurus
112) ”Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.” –
113) ”Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” -Niels Bohr
114) ”If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.” -Lao Tzu
115) ”We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” –
116) ”I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.” –
117) ”I do not know everything; still many things I understand.” -Madeleine L’Engle
118) ”Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
119) ”So wise so young, they say, do never live long.” -William Shakespeare
120) ”A man without words is a man without thought.” -John Steinbeck
121) ”Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.” -Lisa Lutz
122) ”Obscurity and a competence, that is the life that is best worth living.” -Mark Twain
123) ”The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” -Emerson
124) ”When in doubt, choose to live.” -Terry Pratchett
125) ”The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.” -Dante Alighieri
126) ”Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.” -Lao Zi
127) ”Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” –
128) ”When you make a choice, you change the future.” -Deepak Chopra
129) ”The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” –
130) ”Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.” –
131) ”No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” -Theodore Roosevelt
132) ”Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.” –
133) ”Life was nothing more than a board game, and only those who realized they were the overlooking players, instead of the pieces on the board, truly succeeded in life and achieved what they desired.” -Jasun Ether
134) ”Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.” -Euripides
135) ”Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” –
136) ”Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.” -Brian Tracy
137) ”The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.” -Imam Al-Ghazali
138) ”Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.” -Matsuo Bashō
139) ”Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You’ll definitely be happier.” -Simone Elkeles
140) ”Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.” –
141) ”Life, the way it really is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse.” –
142) ”Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” -Wil Zeus
143) ”It takes a great man to be a good listener.” -Calvin Coolidge
144) ”Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.” -Eckhart Tolle
145) ”I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” -Amit Kalantri
146) ”Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.” –
147) ”Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.” -Brian Tracy
148) ”An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn’t try.” -Jen Knox
149) ”It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. ” -Kevin Brooks
150) ”All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.” –
151) ”Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.” -Shannon L. Alder
152) ”Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.” -Dale Carnegie
153) ”Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.” -Lynsay Sands
154) ”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.” -Alan Watts
155) ”Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.” -Michel de Montaigne
156) ”Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” -Joe Abercrombie
157) ”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
158) ”Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.” –
159) ”Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.” -William Stafford
160) ”You can’t dethrone a king if you don’t know they exist.” -Jasun Ether
161) ”Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!” -Karl Lagerfeld
162) ”When they say the sky’s the limit to me that’s really true.” –
163) ”The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.” –
164) ”A bird is safe in its nest – but that is not what its wings are made for.” -Amit Ray
165) ”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.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery
166) ”Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” –
167) ”To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” –
168) ”The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.” -Orson Scott Card
169) ”The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” -Shannon L. Alder
170) ”You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.” -Don Miguel Ruiz
171) ”To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.” –
172) ”To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” -Dejan Stojanovic
173) ”The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.” –
174) ”Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.” -Brian Tracy
175) ”Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.” -Claudia Gray
176) ”But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.” -Paulo Coelho
177) ”It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.” -Dejan Stojanovic
178) ”Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” -Brian Rathbone
179) ”How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” -Homer
180) ”It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” -Francois De La Rochefoucauld
181) ”If you’re gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you’ve crossed it first.” -Quentin R. Bufogle
182) ”The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.” -Sarah Dessen
183) ”Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
184) ”If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.” -Jodi Picoult
185) ”The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.” -Brian Tracy
186) ”The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.” -Hasan Al-Basri
187) ”The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” -Anthony Robbins
188) ”If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us, then there wouldn’t be so much fuss about love in the first place” -Amor Towles
189) ”The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” -Bertrand Russell
190) ”Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” -William Jordan
191) ”A path is made by walking on it.” -Chuang Tzu
192) ”When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.” -Herophilus
193) ”He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” -Thomas Paine
194) ”If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” -Mario Andretti
195) ”You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” -Amit Ray
196) ”A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Alexander Pope
197) ”Cleverness is not wisdom.” -Euripides
198) ”Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.” –
199) ”The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” -Socrates
200) ”You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.” -viggo mortensen
