Wisdom Quotes - Page 4

• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Men

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• Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Knowledge, Men

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Dark, Glasses

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• Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Silence, Speak

  "Small talk? It's not big and it's not clever" by Gary Nunn, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2015.

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  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

  Education, Confidence, Witty

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  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

  Voltaire

  Freedom, Fool, Vegan

  "Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

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• I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Meaningful, Men, Ownership

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• The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouragement

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Feb 26, 2014

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• Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspiring, Graduation, Humility

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.102, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, Desire

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Inspirational, Life, Memories

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• Wisdom is the daughter of experience

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Daughter, Intelligent, Experience

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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