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