Timeless Wisdom: Profound Quotes for Life's Journey - Page 2

Gain insights from wise quotes that offer timeless wisdom and deep reflections on life, society, and personal growth. Page 2 provides more wisdom quotes.

Image of Edna Ferber
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
- Edna Ferber
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Image of Thomas Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
- Thomas Huxley
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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The soul's joy lies in doing.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
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Image of C. S. Lewis
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
- C. S. Lewis
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Image of Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
- Xenophon
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Image of Juvenal
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal
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Image of George C. Marshall
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
- George C. Marshall
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Image of Confucius
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
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Image of Tyler Perry
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
- Tyler Perry
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Image of Barry White
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
- Barry White
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Image of Constantin Stanislavski
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
- Constantin Stanislavski
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Image of Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Image of Isaac D'Israeli
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Isaac D'Israeli
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Image of Erik Erikson
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
- Erik Erikson
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Image of Oprah Winfrey
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Image of William J. Clinton
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
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Image of Bodhidharma
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
- Bodhidharma
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Johannes Tauler
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
- Johannes Tauler
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Image of Joseph Roux
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
- Joseph Roux
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of Reinhold Niebuhr
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Image of John C. Bogle
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
- John C. Bogle
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Image of Plato
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Plato
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Image of Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of Lactantius
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
- Lactantius
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Image of Stephen Gardiner
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
- Stephen Gardiner
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Image of Daniel Dae Kim
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
- Daniel Dae Kim
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Image of Samuel Smiles
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles
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Image of William Cowper
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
- William Cowper
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Image of James Prescott Joule
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
- James Prescott Joule
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Image of Wade Davis
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
- Wade Davis
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Image of Lord Byron
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
- Lord Byron
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Image of Barack Obama
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Andrew Jackson
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
- Andrew Jackson
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Image of Bill Bradley
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
- Bill Bradley
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Image of Sophocles
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
- Sophocles
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Image of Steve Albini
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
- Steve Albini
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Image of A. R. Rahman
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
- A. R. Rahman
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Image of Jenny Shipley
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
- Jenny Shipley
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Image of Ben Carson
I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
- Ben Carson
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Image of Aristophanes
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
- Aristophanes
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Image of Tony Dungy
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
- Tony Dungy
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Image of Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Image of Charles Caleb Colton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Image of Franz Grillparzer
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Image of John Webster
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
- John Webster
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Image of Laurence Sterne
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
- Laurence Sterne
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