Beautiful Words Of Wisdom

Beautiful Words Of Wisdom Quotes and Quotations

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

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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
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbons Huneker
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Akio Morita
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Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Ralph Marston
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Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
Lord Thomas Dewar
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A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
Unknown
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb
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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Those who do not read are no better off than those who can not.
Chinese Proverbs
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
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There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.
Lao Tzu
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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Honore de Balzac
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Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point--a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.
Thomas Crum
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert J. Shiller
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Anthony Burgess
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
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Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
Christian Slater
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Dan Stanford
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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones