Wisdom Quotes

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Identity, Thee

  Benjamin Franklin (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography”

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Future, Responsibility

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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• Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Wise, Decision, Made

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
  Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
  You Presume you are a small entity,
  But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
  You are indeed the evident book,
  By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
  Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
  What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Spiritual, Islamic, Book

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• A good friend will always stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Honesty

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• If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Deep Thought, Mind

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• Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

  Julius Caesar

  Moving On, Death, Fear

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

  Thomas Browne

  Spiritual, Journey, Who I Am

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15

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• Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

  Douglas Bader

  Wise, Work, Men

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• A small act is worth a million thoughts.

  Ai Weiwei

  Motivational, Wise, Thoughtful

  "Meet the most interesting person in China" by Kathleen E. McLaughlin, www.pri.org. June 23, 2009.

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Recovery

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 14, 2016

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• Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

  Ishida Mitsunari

  Respect, Winning, Power

  "Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". Video Game "Samurai Warriors", 2004.

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• We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

  A. D. Gordon

  Spiritual, Dark, Fighting

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• The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

  Paulo Coelho

  Garden, Giving, Advice

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 20, 2011

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• We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wise, Stupid, Silly

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 49, 1799.

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• Think before you speak. Read before you think.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.222, Vintage

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• As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Age, Should

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.369

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• The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Men, Doe

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