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“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”

— Epictetus

#karma#listening#wisdom

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

#self-knowledge#wisdom#enlightenment

“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.”

— Confucius

#wisdom#learning#experience

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

— Heraclitus

#learning#understanding#wisdom

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”

— Aristotle

#simplicity#self knowledge#wisdom

“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”

— Unknown

#acceptance#adaptability#wisdom

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#resilience#patience#wisdom

“Action is the foundational key to all success, but every action has a consequence that must be reconciled.”

— Thiruvalluvar

#karma#action#consequence

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.”

— Alexandre Dumas

#hope#patience#wisdom

“To cultivate knowledge, love learning; to gain wisdom, know yourself.”

— Socrates

#knowledge#wisdom

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”

— Lao Tzu

#change#letting go#wisdom

“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”

— Euripides

#friendship#wisdom#blessing

“In all things that you do, consider the end.”

— Solon

#purpose#wisdom#foresight

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world today I am wise so I am changing myself”

— Rumi

#time#yesterday#wisdom

“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.”

— Unknown

#gratitude#wisdom#humility

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

— Confucius

#learning#thinking#balance

“The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise.”

— Laozi

#wisdom#knowledge#humility

“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.”

— Thucydides

#courage#freedom#happiness

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”

— Jalaluddin Rumi

#hope#wisdom#self-change

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”

— Socrates

#wisdom#learning#clarity

“He who digs a pit shall fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.”

— King Solomon

#karma#consequences#justice

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

— Lao Tzu

#abundance#self-knowledge#wisdom

“Know thyself.”

— Socrates

#self-knowledge#wisdom#awareness

“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”

— Bernard Baruch

#acceptance#growth#resilience

“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.”

— Ben Zoma

#contentment#gratitude#wisdom

“Critical thinking without kindness is cynicism kindness without critical thinking is naivety the combination is wisdom”

— Maria Popova

#kindness#critical-thinking#wisdom

“When you drink the water, remember the spring.”

— Unknown

#gratitude#wisdom#mindfulness

“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”

— Seneca

#life#time#meaning

“He who has not a good father should procure a good father-in-law.”

— Baltasar Gracián

#family#fatherhood#wisdom

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

— Seneca

#wisdom#courage#fear

“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently.”

— Lao Tzu

#family#patience#gentleness

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.”

— Latin Proverb

#leadership#self-control#discipline

“To attain knowledge add things every day to attain wisdom remove things every day”

— Laozi

#simplicity#wisdom#removal

“The sage does not contend, and therefore no one can contend with him.”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance#peace#non-resistance

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

— William James

#wisdom#overlooking#discernment

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#kindness#wisdom#philosophy

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

#gratitude#wisdom#contentment

“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#peace#wisdom#restraint

“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

— Confucius

#thinking#learning#balance

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi

#learning#wisdom#self-change

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

#wisdom#self-reflection#awareness

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely”

— Auguste Rodin

#resilience#experience#wisdom

“Time is the best doctor.”

— Yiddish Proverb

#healing#time#patience

“A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#leadership#wisdom#counsel

“The wise do at once what the fool does at last.”

— Baltasar Gracian

#time#wisdom#action

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.”

— Paracelsus

#healing#nature#medicine

“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap.”

— Zhuangzi

#detachment#wisdom#taoism

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#peace#preparation#prevention

“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”

— Plato

#learning#humility#knowledge

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Cicero

#karma#knowledge#wisdom

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

#love#trust#wisdom

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends”

— Baltasar Gracian

#failure#enemies#wisdom

“Experience is the teacher of wisdom.”

— Talmud

#experience#wisdom

“The pine stays green in winter; wisdom is seeing that this is the nature of the pine.”

— Lao Tzu

#resilience#nature#wisdom

“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”

— Epictetus

#acceptance#resilience#flexibility

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

— William Blake

#perception#wisdom#awareness

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

— Lao Tzu

#purpose#self-knowledge#wisdom

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#action#practice#wisdom

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#wisdom#individuality#sanity

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom but time teaches both”

— Isaac Asimov

#time#knowledge#wisdom

“Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom mastering others is strength mastering yourself is true power”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude#self-mastery#wisdom

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

#leadership#delegation#wisdom

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

— James Joyce

#failure#discovery#growth

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”

— Matsuo Basho

#nature#wisdom#seeking

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

— Socrates

#wonder#humility#knowledge

“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace#words#wisdom

“The power of mindful awareness to transform our experience of suffering into wisdom is one of the great discoveries of the contemplative tradition.”

— Nyanaponika Thera

#transformation#wisdom#suffering

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

— Isaac Asimov

#passion#wisdom#knowledge

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#wisdom#learning#opportunity

“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#learning#knowledge#guidance

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

#gratitude#wisdom#rejoicing

“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”

— Hippocrates

#life#time#wisdom

“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”

— Pythagoras

#brevity#clarity#communication

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#faith#understanding#belief

“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself.”

— Lao Tzu

#healing#generosity#connection

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”

— Gautama Buddha

#life#action#wisdom

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

— Robert Jordan

#resilience#flexibility#adaptation

“A single conversation with a wise person is worth a month study of books.”

— Chinese Proverb

#learning#mentorship#wisdom

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

— Lao Tzu

#kindness#love#wisdom

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”

— Lao Tzu

#family#generosity#giving

“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

#purpose#self-knowledge#wisdom

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#peace#forgiveness#nonviolence

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom#humility#philosophy

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#time#patience#wisdom

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#friendship#enemies#wisdom

“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”

— Aristotle

#justice#moderation#wisdom

“Wisdom cannot be imparted and wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishness but wonder can be shared”

— Hermann Hesse

#wonder#wisdom#sharing

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#gratitude#virtue#character

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

— Voltaire

#gratitude#questions#wisdom

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Socrates

#wonder#wisdom#philosophy

“The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.”

— Solomon

#justice#legacy#righteousness

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#simplicity#truth#wisdom

“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity; the knowledge of the world will keep you from despair.”

— Saadi Shirazi

#life#self-knowledge#balance

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

— Gautama Buddha

#failure#integrity#wisdom

“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.”

— Solomon

#karma#justice#consequences

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

— Baltasar Gracián

#courage#wisdom#action

“Knowledge and wisdom are different.”

— Hermann Hesse

#knowledge#wisdom

“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”

— Lao Tzu

#leadership#humility#empowerment

“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”

— Diogenes

#listening#speaking#wisdom

“The person who has not learned to be alone is a person who does not know themselves.”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude#self-knowledge#wisdom

“Know thyself.”

— Thales

#self-knowledge#wisdom#foundation

“The charitable man is the truly wise man, and he who loveth not his brother is indeed a fool.”

— Saadi Shirazi

#leadership#compassion#wisdom

“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.”

— Confucius

#learning#wisdom#experience

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”

— Matsuo Basho

#simplicity#wisdom#originality

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

— Laozi

#self-knowledge#wisdom#taoism

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Creativity thrives on nonsense.”

— Roald Dahl

#creativity#nonsense#wisdom

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”

— Marcus Aurelius

#friendship#individuality#wisdom

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#justice#nonviolence#wisdom

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Unknown

#karma#reaction#personal responsibility

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

— Socrates

#abundance#contentment#desire

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#simplicity#greatness#character

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#kindness#wisdom#greater

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

— William Shakespeare

#family#wisdom#fatherhood

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”

— Thomas More

#justice#education#wisdom

“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”

— Marianne von Ebner-Eschenbach

#failure#small things#attention

“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”

— Pericles

#time#wisdom#patience

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.”

— Lin Yutang

#simplicity#rest#priorities

“He who has gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.”

— Laozi

#failure#thoroughness#wisdom

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

— Socrates

#Wisdom#Knowledge

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' mere study of books.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#learning#mentorship#wisdom

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#serenity#courage#wisdom

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

— King Solomon

#family#parenting#guidance

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Seneca

#gratitude#wisdom#rejoicing

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”

— Lao Tzu

#learning#wisdom#simplicity

“The strongest person is not the one who overcomes others, but the one who overcomes himself.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#empowerment#self-discipline#strength

“I know that I know nothing and in that simple admission lies the beginning of wisdom”

— Socrates

#simplicity#knowing#wisdom

“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods.”

— Pythagoras

#self-knowledge#universe#wisdom

“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility and the beginning of all wisdom”

— Simone Weil

#compassion#humility#wisdom

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#wonder#wisdom#everyday

“Where would I possibly find enough leather with which to cover the surface of the earth? But wearing leather on the soles of my feet is equivalent to covering the earth with it.”

— Shantideva

#perspective#inner-change#wisdom

“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”

— Confucius

#happiness#wisdom#frequent-change

“It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly.”

— Epicurus

#wisdom#justice#pleasant-life

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”

— Aldous Huxley

#experience#response#wisdom

“One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

— Lao Tzu

#life#contentment#wisdom

“Knowing others is intelligence but knowing yourself is true wisdom”

— Lao Tzu

#solitude#self-knowledge#wisdom

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#acceptance#serenity#courage

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature#patience#growth

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi

#karma#self-change#wisdom

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you”

— Alfred Adler

#empowerment#heart#wisdom

“The Way that can be told is not the eternal Way. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

— Lao Tzu

#faith#mystery#tao

“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”

— Bertrand Russell

#justice#confidence#wisdom

“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”

— Confucius

#change#wisdom#happiness

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

— Maimonides

#teaching#independence#wisdom

“What makes us wise? Perhaps it is ignorance.”

— Voltaire

#wisdom#ignorance

“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”

— Socrates

#self-awareness#mindfulness#wisdom

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.”

— Herodotus

#peace#war#loss

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

— Michel de Montaigne

#self-possession#independence#wisdom

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

#self-knowledge#wisdom#beginning

“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a mans heart away from nature becomes hard.”

— Luther Standing Bear

#nature#heart#wisdom

“Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man; the sage is one who also acts rightly.”

— Seneca

#wisdom#action#virtue

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has through simplicity”

— Epictetus

#simplicity#wisdom#rejoicing

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Unknown

#resilience#growth#wisdom

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

#karma#simplicity#wisdom

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— René Descartes

#learning#mind#action

“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.”

— Spanish Proverb

#acceptance#contentment#practicality

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”

— Seneca

#leadership#power#restraint

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

#gentleness#communication#wisdom

“Know thyself.”

— Thales of Miletus

#self-awareness#mindfulness#wisdom

“The soul that is not trained by experience has learned nothing.”

— Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib

#wisdom#experience#learning

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life, knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”

— Aristotle

#peace#wisdom#courage

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”

— Alan Watts

#simplicity#patience#wisdom

“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”

— Laozi

#truth#paradox#wisdom

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”

— Voltaire

#empowerment#curiosity#wisdom

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#faith#understanding#belief

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

— Rumi

#wonder#humility#wisdom

“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.”

— Unknown

#wisdom#adaptability#flexibility

“An evil deed does not turn to cream right away, but like fire covered with ashes, it follows the fool, smoldering.”

— Gautama Buddha

#karma#patience#consequences

“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”

— Lao Tzu

#humility#open-mindedness#wisdom

“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”

— Antisthenes

#learning#persistence#wisdom

“Dreaming of drinking wine will not quench your thirst.”

— Zhuangzi

#dream#action#reality

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

— Laozi

#karma#silence#wisdom

“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”

— Confucius

#kindness#justice#reciprocity

“In the gap between thoughts non-conceptual wisdom shines continuously”

— Milarepa

#spirituality#wisdom#gaps

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#acceptance#serenity#wisdom

“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”

— Socrates

#positive#contentment#simplicity

“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”

— Sophocles

#kindness#friendship#treasure

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent but kindness is the first resort of the wise”

— Isaac Asimov

#kindness#wisdom#first-resort

“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few”

— Pythagoras

#simplicity#communication#wisdom

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

— Unknown

#readiness#growth#learning

“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself. The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself.”

— Laozi

#passion#generosity#wisdom

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise instead seek what they sought”

— Matsuo Basho

#resilience#wisdom#path

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”

— Isaac Newton

#simplicity#nature#science

“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#simplicity#language#communication

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Lao Tzu

#wisdom#self-awareness#humility

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

— Charles Dickens

#love#wisdom

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

#healing#wisdom#resilience

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

— Francis Bacon

#gratitude#opportunity#wisdom

“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

#acceptance#serenity#courage

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

— Maimonides

#teaching#empowerment#wisdom

“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.”

— Sophocles

#gratitude#wisdom#happiness

“A stumble may prevent a fall.”

— Thomas Fuller

#failure#caution#wisdom

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”

— David Hume

#friendship#wisdom#evidence

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

#patience#wisdom#perseverance

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

— Plato

#wisdom#character#power

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

— Frederick Douglass

#wisdom#dignity#resilience

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

— Aristotle

#peace#wisdom#planning

“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#owl#wisdom#dusk

“The wise man changes his mind; the fool never will.”

— Unknown

#change#wisdom#flexibility

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#wisdom#action#decisiveness

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

— Oliver Sacks

#wisdom#humanity#understanding

“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”

— Publilius Syrus

#purpose#balance#rest

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

— Lao Tzu

#abundance#contentment#wisdom

“Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”

— Solomon

#mindfulness#heart#awareness

“Wise men speak because they have something to say about peace. Fools speak because they have to say something.”

— Plato

#peace#wisdom#speech

“The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.”

— Chuang Tzu

#perspective#mindfulness#wisdom

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

— Seneca

#wisdom#adversity#growth

“The narrow gate is not found through the intellect alone but through the intention of the heart.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

#spirituality#heart#intention

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#learning#knowledge#investment

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#simplicity#contentment#wisdom

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

— Montaigne

#expression#wisdom#quotation

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

— Lin Yutang

#simplicity#wisdom#priorities

“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#justice#law#flexibility

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself toward peace.”

— Rumi

#peace#wisdom#self-change

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”

— Matsuo Bashō

#originality#wisdom#path

“The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.”

— Lao Tzu

#wisdom#humility#knowledge

“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”

— Socrates

#acceptance#contentment#simplicity

“Turn your wounds into wisdom”

— Oprah Winfrey

#empowerment#wounds#wisdom

“Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone”

— Lin Yutang

#simplicity#wisdom#restraint

“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”

— Vietnamese Proverb

#gratitude#remembrance#humility

“Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.”

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

#learning#humility#wisdom

“Expectation is the root of all heartache, yet without it the heart cannot bloom.”

— Lao Tzu

#hope#expectation#wisdom

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

#wisdom#open-mindedness#thinking

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

— Rene Descartes

#doubt#wisdom#inquiry

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing love tells me I am everything between the two my life flows”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#solitude#wisdom#love

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

— Plato

#opinion#knowledge#ignorance

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise but seek what they sought in solitary contemplation”

— Matsuo Basho

#solitude#wisdom#seeking

“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

#wisdom#questions#curiosity

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

— Unknown

#wisdom#opportunity#adversity

“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”

— Naval Ravikant

#desire#contentment#wisdom

“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”

— Solomon

#healing#joy#spirit

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

— Euripides

#friendship#loyalty#wisdom

“When we start to feel the shortage of resources simplicity becomes our greatest teacher”

— D.T. Suzuki

#simplicity#resourcefulness#wisdom

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”

— Thomas More

#education#schooling#wisdom

“He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God”

— Aeschylus

#resilience#suffering#wisdom

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

#compassion#happiness#practice

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

— Epictetus

#wisdom#freedom#self-mastery

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

— Pema Chodron

#lessons#growth#wisdom

“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.”

— Babylonian Talmud

#dream#wisdom#reflection

“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.”

— Unknown

#karma#justice#retribution

“To know what you know, and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Confucius

#wisdom#knowledge#humility

“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”

— Pythagoras

#brevity#communication#wisdom

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”

— Lao Tzu

#self-mastery#empowerment#wisdom

“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”

— Francis Bacon

#justice#responsibility#society

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

— Samuel Johnson

#Love#Wisdom#Folly

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

— Plato

#wisdom#speech#silence

“We do not need more knowledge we need more wisdom and wisdom comes from our own experience”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality#wisdom#experience

“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”

— Unknown

#empowerment#self-knowledge#wisdom

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

— B.F. Skinner

#education#learning#wisdom

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

— Unknown

#mind#thoughts#transformation

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#hope#serenity#wisdom

“Fortune favors the bold. Peace favors the wise.”

— Virgil

#peace#wisdom#fortune

“The archer that shoots at random, without any mark to aim at, never hits the target.”

— Saadi Shirazi

#purpose#aim#intention

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”

— Rumi

#wisdom#discernment#focus

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Peace requires humility.”

— Bertrand Russell

#peace#humility#wisdom

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

— Horace

#resilience#wisdom#preparation

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.”

— Unknown

#learning#mentorship#wisdom

“Wisdom comes through suffering.”

— Aeschylus

#wisdom#suffering#learning

“He who has begun has half done dare to be wise begin”

— Horace

#friendship#beginning#wisdom

“Let go or be dragged”

— Zen Proverb

#acceptance#letting go#wisdom

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

— Socrates

#wonder#wisdom#curiosity

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom#knowledge

“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

#doubt#wisdom#certainty

“That man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless.”

— Plato

#wisdom#humility

“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

#time#growth#patience

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”

— Aeschylus

#time#learning#wisdom

“Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality#self-knowledge#wisdom

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

— James Oppenheim

#abundance#wisdom#happiness

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common and find wonder everywhere”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#wonder#wisdom#common

“Overcoming of anger is the basis of justice, and patience its proof.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#justice#anger#patience

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”

— Francis of Assisi

#wisdom#charity#compassion

“As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.”

— Siddhartha Gautama

#mind-training#discipline#wisdom

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

— Lao Tzu

#learning#readiness#wisdom

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference through faith”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#faith#serenity#wisdom

“Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.”

— Laozi

#ignorance#knowledge#self-awareness

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

— Plutarch

#wisdom#inner work#transformation

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”

— Aristotle

#genius#creativity#wisdom

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#wisdom#thoughts#inner-life

“Act nothing in a furious passion. It is putting to sea in a storm.”

— Thomas Fuller

#passion#patience#wisdom

“A wise person does at once what a fool does at last”

— Baltasar Gracian

#empowerment#wisdom#action

“Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken.”

— Lao Tzu

#acceptance#flexibility#wisdom

“The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom#knowledge

“Life is long if you know how to use it”

— Seneca

#acceptance#time#wisdom

“Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.”

— Lao Tzu

#nature#patience#wisdom

“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”

— Hesiod

#karma#evil#consequences

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?”

— Rumi

#wisdom#growth#adversity

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

— Sun Tzu

#leadership#strategy#wisdom

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

#wisdom#learning#mind

“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#nature#trees#wisdom

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

— Immanuel Kant

#science#wisdom#organization

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all family wisdom.”

— Aristotle

#family#self-knowledge#wisdom

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

— Thales

#self-knowledge#difficulty#wisdom

“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods”

— Pythagoras

#empowerment#self-knowledge#wisdom

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”

— Homer

#time#rest#wisdom

“The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.”

— Solomon

#empowerment#wisdom#building

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

— Confucius

#wisdom#humility#action

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”

— Solomon

#faith#trust#wisdom

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

— Lao Tzu

#leadership#humility#empowerment

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#abundance#independence#wisdom

“Put your trust in God, but keep your camel tied.”

— Unknown

#faith#action#wisdom

“If you always give, you will always have.”

— Lao Tzu

#abundance#generosity#giving

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#wisdom#listening#humility

“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.”

— Seneca

#abundance#wisdom#wealth

“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”

— Unknown

#life#impermanence#detachment

“If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart.”

— Lao Tzu

#peace#heart#home

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#anger#consequences#wisdom

“Wisdom is born from suffering.”

— Aeschylus

#wisdom#suffering

“Do not be unjust to others and you will not be a slave to injustice yourself.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#justice#fairness#wisdom

“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”

— Lao Tzu

#simplicity#desire#wisdom

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#learning#urgency#wisdom

“Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#wisdom#learning#self-control

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”

— Unknown

#life#wisdom#guidance

“Wisdom cannot be imparted wisdom that a wise man tries to impart always sounds like foolishness”

— Hermann Hesse

#friendship#wisdom#sharing

“Turn your wounds into wisdom and your pain into power”

— Oprah Winfrey

#healing#wounds#wisdom

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

— Plato

#knowing#fear#wisdom

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere while the pessimist sees only the red but the truly wise see wonder”

— Albert Schweitzer

#wonder#wisdom#seeing

“The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.”

— Terence

#justice#mercy#paradox

“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Nor is it in the pursuit of pleasure, but in the discovery of purpose.”

— Ben Jonson

#purpose#happiness#wisdom

“I know that I know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom#humility#knowledge

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

— James Russell Lowell

#failure#perspective#adversity

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

— Honoré de Balzac

#empowerment#precision#strength

“He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.”

— King Solomon

#karma#consequences#wisdom

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than compassion for all living beings”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#compassion#wisdom#living beings

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#leadership#wisdom#judgment

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”

— James Allen

#calm#mindfulness#wisdom

“When you know better, you do better.”

— Maya Angelou

#learning#growth#wisdom

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

— James Oppenheim

#happiness#wisdom#present moment

“The arrow that has left the bow never returns. Therefore, always aim with kindness and strength.”

— Saadi Shirazi

#empowerment#intention#wisdom

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”

— Menander

#life#acceptance#realism

“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world today I am wise so I am changing myself and faith made this shift possible”

— Rumi

#faith#wisdom#self-change

“Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”

— Confucius

#justice#patience#wisdom

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

#self-examination#wisdom#philosophy

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

— Alexander Pope

#learning#knowledge#wisdom

“To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.”

— Cicero

#failure#learning#repetition

“The world is a traveller's inn, not an abode.”

— Rumi

#life#impermanence#journey

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

— Dante Alighieri

#time#wisdom#urgency

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

— Confucius

#beauty#perception#awareness

“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is its handmaid.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#hope#patience#wisdom

“After you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on and found that none of these finally satisfy what remains is nature.”

— Walt Whitman

#nature#fulfillment#wisdom

“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

— Benjamin Franklin

#wisdom#age

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us.”

— Marcel Proust

#life#wisdom#journey

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”

— Victor Hugo

#humility#knowledge#learning

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

— Epicurus

#friendship#happiness#wisdom

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”

— Aristotle

#justice#equality#wisdom

“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”

— Elbert Hubbard

#karma#consequences#sin

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

— Baltasar Gracián

#motivation#wisdom#action

“The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.”

— Henry Miller

#leadership#humility#guidance

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

— Unknown

#wisdom#honesty#integrity

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality#suffering#wisdom

“Study the past if you would define the future.”

— Confucius

#learning#history#future

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

#silence#mindfulness#wisdom

“The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom#knowledge

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought which was peace.”

— Matsuo Basho

#peace#seeking#wisdom

“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”

— Pierre Abelard

#wonder#doubt#wisdom

“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

#acceptance#doubt#wisdom

“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it. Life is long enough and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”

— Seneca

#nature#time#wisdom

“War does not determine who is right only who is left. Peace determines who is wise.”

— Bertrand Russell

#peace#war#wisdom

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

— Socrates

#reading#learning#self-improvement

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

— Henry Ford

#failure#mistakes#learning

“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”

— Gautama Buddha

#wisdom#discipline#mind

“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is the path that wisdom walks.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#hope#patience#wisdom

“Kindness is the highest form of wisdom for it requires understanding patience and love”

— Zeno of Citium

#kindness#wisdom#highest

“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

#wisdom#humility#learning

“There is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar. The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue but that happiness does not come from wealth but from setting limits on desire.”

— Dalai Lama

#hope#contentment#wisdom

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#life#resilience#preparedness

“Wisdom begins in wonder and wonder never ceases for the truly curious mind”

— Socrates

#wonder#wisdom#curiosity

“He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.”

— Unknown

#family#courtship#respect

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

— John Locke

#knowledge#experience#wisdom

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves”

— Confucius

#justice#revenge#wisdom

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others faults. Be like running water for generosity.”

— Rumi

#generosity#grace#wisdom

“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated”

— Confucius

#simplicity#life#wisdom

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise seek what they sought”

— Basho

#acceptance#wisdom#seeking

“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.”

— Unknown

#time#value#wisdom

“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”

— Henry David Thoreau

#karma#simplicity#contentment

“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods.”

— Unknown

#empowerment#self-knowledge#wisdom

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Confucius

#wisdom#humility#self-awareness

“To lead the people, walk behind them.”

— Lao Tzu

#leadership#humility#service

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.”

— William Shakespeare

#merry#humor#wisdom

“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”

— Gautama Buddha

#awareness#desire#mindfulness

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

#letting-go#strength#wisdom

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

— Gautama Buddha

#health#present moment#wisdom

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