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“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
— George Orwell
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
— Adam Smith
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Socrates
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.”
— Laozi
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
— Elon Musk
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
— Aristotle
“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock.”
— Anaxagoras
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
— Walt Whitman
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
— Hannah Arendt
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.”
— Seth Godin
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
— Lao Tzu
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
— Boethius
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
— Thomas Paine
“Living in accordance with experience of what happens by nature is the path to wisdom.”
— Chrysippus
“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity.”
— Simone Weil
“Keep your identity small.”
— Paul Graham
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
— Steve Jobs
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“All of mans miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
— Mother Teresa
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
“Pain plus reflection equals progress.”
— Ray Dalio
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
“I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
— Pema Chodron
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“The robust is what does not need to be smart.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.”
— Sri Aurobindo
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
— William Blake
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
— Confucius
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
— Ben Franklin
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”
— Solomon
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
— Cleanthes
“What we think, we become.”
— Buddha
“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
— Stephen Hawking
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“Your brand is what other people say about you when you are not in the room.”
— Jeff Bezos
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.”
— Adyashanti
“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.”
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
— Jack Kornfield
“What we know is a drop, what we do not know is an ocean.”
— Isaac Newton
“That which does not destroy us makes us stronger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
— William Shakespeare
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
— Alan Watts
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
“He has the most who is content with the least.”
— Diogenes
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
— Unknown
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self.”
— Aldous Huxley
“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
— Philo of Alexandria
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
— Brene Brown
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.”
— Adam Grant
“Be realistic: plan for a miracle.”
— Osho
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Cicero
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
— Plato
“You cannot be neutral on a moving train.”
— Howard Zinn
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
— Jordan Peterson
“Fortune favors the brave.”
— Terence
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
— Heraclitus
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
— David Hume
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
“Becoming is better than being.”
— Carol Dweck
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise.”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
— Marie Curie
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
— Alexander Pope
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about everything.”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
— Pythagoras
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
— Carl Sagan
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
— Zhuangzi
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
— Erasmus
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
— Horace
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
— Tony Robbins
“Change your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
— Thales
“What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.”
— Lucretius
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Life is like an echo. What you send out comes back.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.”
— Sun Tzu
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
“Peace is not an absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.”
— Henry Ford
“A person success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
— Tim Ferriss
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The small man builds cages for everyone he knows, while the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful rowdy prisoners.”
— Hafiz
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.”
— John Rawls
“The fears we do not face become our limits.”
— Robin Sharma
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Understanding is the other name of love. If you do not understand, you cannot love.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The only constant in life is change.”
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
— Ovid
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one ignorance.”
“Many of life failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas Edison
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
— Richard Feynman
“Before a man can do things, there must be things he will not do.”
— Mencius
“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”
— Deepak Chopra
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
— Zeno of Citium
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
— Epictetus
“Knowledge is power.”
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
— Naval Ravikant
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
— Joseph Campbell
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
— Winston Churchill
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.”
— Goethe
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
“I am still learning.”
— Michelangelo
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
— Voltaire
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
“Man is the measure of all things.”
— Protagoras
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“Wisdom comes through suffering.”
— Aeschylus
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.”
— Daniel Kahneman
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
— Euripides
“The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.”
— Sadhguru
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
— Thomas a Kempis
“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.”
“When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100 percent of the time.”
— Byron Katie
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter Drucker
“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
— Warren Buffett
“To define is to limit.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Things do not change; we change.”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
— Carl Jung
“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them.”
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Knowing what you do not know is more useful than being brilliant.”
— Charlie Munger
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“Fortune favors the bold.”
— Virgil
“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”
“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
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
— Democritus
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”
— Antisthenes
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
— Peter Thiel
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
“If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.”
— Noam Chomsky
“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.”
— Angela Duckworth
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”
“To know what you know, and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
“Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you disbelieve in all the rest.”
— Ibn Arabi
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”
— Herman Hesse
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
“The truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind.”
— Emily Dickinson
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”
— Karl Popper
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?”
— Rumi
“If there is a book that you want to read but it has not been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
— Toni Morrison
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
— Amit Ray
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“People do not buy what you do; they buy why you do it.”
— Simon Sinek
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Khalil Gibran
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
— Francis of Assisi
“Well done is better than well said.”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man; the sage is one who also acts rightly.”
“The soul that is not trained by experience has learned nothing.”
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib
“There is no success without hardship.”
— Sophocles
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
— Robert Frost
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
— Booker T. Washington
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
— John Dewey
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that we eventually are unable to recognize ourselves.”
— La Rochefoucauld
“Wherever you are is the entry point.”
— Kabir
“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
“The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.”
“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”
— Dalai Lama
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”
“The obstacle is the way.”
— Ryan Holiday
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.”
— Mooji
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you launched too late.”
— Reid Hoffman
“In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.”
— Yuval Noah Harari
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
— Nikola Tesla
“In the long run, the market always wins.”
— Marc Andreessen
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
— Matsuo Bashō
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
— Harriet Tubman
“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
— Tacitus
“I think, therefore I am.”
— Rene Descartes
“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
“It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
— Bill Gates
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
— James Clear
“You become what you believe.”
“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men.”
— Cato the Elder
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
— Gautama Buddha
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
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