Wise Quotes

• Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Patient, Resolve

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• The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

  Alexander Pope

  Running, Chance, Only Time

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• The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Men, Enemy

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.170, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

  Laozi

  Clever, Knowledge, Taoism

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• To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Use

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  Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Wisdom, Smart

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.153, B&H Publishing Group

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• There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mean, Soul

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• Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

  Oscar Wilde

  Dies, Ifs

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• When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.

  Julia Cameron

  Horse, Adventure, Feelings

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• If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

  Brian Johnson

  Passion, People, Ifs

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• The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Able, Firsts

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• Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

  Gautama Buddha

  Moving, Wells, Knows

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• I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

  David Malouf

  Writing, Thinking, Records

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• We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

  Andrew O'Hagan

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• We often despise what is most useful to us.

  Aesop

  Life, Wisdom, Despise

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.26, Pelekanos Books

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• A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Kindness, Loving Kindness

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• The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Freedom, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Too Late, Reasonable, Never Too Late

  Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (2001). “Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Second Edition): and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772”, p.2, Hackett Publishing

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• He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

  Euripides

  Men, Ideas, Statements

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• The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wisdom, Educational, Wiser

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• May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Strong, Adversity, Victory

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• This is hard. This is fun.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Fun, Growth, Hard

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• I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

  Herb Caen

  Life, Cute, Past

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• Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

  Confucius

  Adversity, Men, Long

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• Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

  Ellen Langer

  Growth, Mind, Possibility

  Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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