Wisdom Quotations

Wisdom: What quotations are revered for. All quotations in this category contain timeless bits of wisdom and many are quite provacative

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"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name."

-Lao-Tzu

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."

-Robert P. Vanderpoel

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

-Chinese Proverb

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

-George E. Woodberry

"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

-William Clifford

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

-Justice Louis Brandeis

"Kiku wa ittoki no haji, kikanu wa matsudai no haji. (While asking something you don't know to others is a temporary shame, not asking at all causes a lifetime of shame)"

-Japanese proverb

"You point your finger at the moon, the fool stares at your finger."

-Chinese Proverb

"'The right to do something' does not mean that doing it is right."

-William Safire

"The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships."

-Anthony Robbins

"The heart has its reasons that reason does not know."

-Blaise Pascal

"Our life is like a land journey: too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view - and feel exalted - and your eyes are full of happy tears - and you want to sing - and you wish you had wings! And then - you can't stay there, but you must continue your journey - you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten."

-Lloyd Douglas

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

-Wayne Gretzky

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you can't get more time."

-Jim Rohn

"The foolish neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but never forget."

-Thomas Szasz

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice. The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement."

-John Stuart Mill

"It is a golden rule not to judge men by their opinions but rather by what their opinions make of them."

-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

-Henry Brooks Adams

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

-Albert Einstein

"When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby."

-Nigerian proverb

"Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."

-Sophocles

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."

-Thomas Carlyle

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

-Albert Einstein

"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."

-Albert Einstein

"People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us."

-Bill Gates

"Debate is action. It is action turned on itself, a reflection of consciousness, i.e. what makes us something besides mere animals. Action turned on itself for the sake of doing the right thing."

-XHerakleitos, on arstechnica.com

"Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning."

-Proverbs 9:8-9

"He who answers before listening- that is his folly and his shame."

-Proverbs 18:13

"Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan."

-John McGahern

"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."

-Saint Augustine

"He who angers you conquers you."

-Elizabeth Kenny

"Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow."

-unknown

"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water."

-Benjamin Franklin