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βWe have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.β
β Zeno of Citium
βThree 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.β
β Thomas Aquinas
βIn a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.β
β Yuval Noah Harari
βThe world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.β
β Augustine of Hippo
βStay hungry, stay foolish.β
β Steve Jobs
βThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.β
β Hannah Arendt
βCompare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.β
β Jordan Peterson
βEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself.β
β John Dewey
βDo not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.β
β Pythagoras
βIt is a bad plan that admits of no modification.β
β Publilius Syrus
βHe who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.β
β Ray Dalio
βHave patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βThe three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.β
β Nassim Nicholas Taleb
βJustice is the first virtue of social institutions.β
β John Rawls
βIf you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.β
β Nikola Tesla
βBy 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.β
β Confucius
βThose who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.β
β Lao Tzu
βWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.β
β Plutarch
βThe chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.β
β Samuel Johnson
βA gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.β
β Seneca
βJudge a man by his questions rather than his answers.β
β Voltaire
βIt is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.β
β Bill Gates
βKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.β
β Goethe
βWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βKeep your identity small.β
β Paul Graham
βFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.β
β Aldous Huxley
βI do not understand; I pause; I examine.β
β Michel de Montaigne
βFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.β
β Zhuangzi
βTo err is human; to forgive, divine.β
β Alexander Pope
βNothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.β
β Boethius
βWise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.β
β Plato
βIf you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you launched too late.β
β Reid Hoffman
βThe obstacle is the way.β
β Ryan Holiday
βKnowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.β
β Aristotle
βTo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.β
β Benjamin Disraeli
βIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.β
β Charles Darwin
βThe heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.β
β Blaise Pascal
βBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.β
β David Hume
βBe as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.β
β Paramahansa Yogananda
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.β
β Khalil Gibran
βLetting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βDo not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you disbelieve in all the rest.β
β Ibn Arabi
βIn a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.β
β Swami Vivekananda
βThe superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.β
βThe life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.β
β Marcus Tullius Cicero
βIntelligence is the ability to adapt to change.β
β Stephen Hawking
βReal knowledge is to know the extent of one ignorance.β
βTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.β
β Robert Frost
βThe mind is everything. What you think you become.β
β Unknown
βBecoming is better than being.β
β Carol Dweck
βThe 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.β
β Sadhguru
βThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.β
β Edmund Burke
βThe most important investment you can make is in yourself.β
β Warren Buffett
βScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.β
β Immanuel Kant
βLearning never exhausts the mind.β
β Leonardo da Vinci
βThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts.β
βStep into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.β
β Mooji
βTo know what you know, and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.β
βVulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.β
β Brene Brown
βAn unexamined life is not worth living.β
β Socrates
βAcknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.β
β Eckhart Tolle
βFirst say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.β
β Epictetus
βDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.β
β Ben Franklin
βKnowing what is right does not make a sagacious man; the sage is one who also acts rightly.β
βLiving in accordance with experience of what happens by nature is the path to wisdom.β
β Chrysippus
βIf there is no struggle, there is no progress.β
β Frederick Douglass
βThe fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.β
β William Shakespeare
βThe mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.β
βTo attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.β
βUnderstanding is the other name of love. If you do not understand, you cannot love.β
βYou cannot be neutral on a moving train.β
β Howard Zinn
βKnow your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.β
β Sun Tzu
βWhen you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.β
β Dalai Lama
βIt does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.β
βCourage is knowing what not to fear.β
βTell all the truth but tell it slant.β
β Emily Dickinson
βThe words of truth are always paradoxical.β
β Laozi
βA person success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.β
β Tim Ferriss
βExample is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.β
β Albert Schweitzer
βEvery great change is preceded by chaos.β
β Deepak Chopra
βThings do not change; we change.β
β Henry David Thoreau
βThe quieter you become, the more you can hear.β
β Ram Dass
βVision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.β
β Jonathan Swift
βWhat saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.β
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βHonesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.β
β Thomas Jefferson
βYou are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.β
β C.S. Lewis
βYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.β
β Alan Watts
βLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.β
βKnowledge is power.β
β Francis Bacon
βKnowing what you do not know is more useful than being brilliant.β
β Charlie Munger
βDripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.β
β Ovid
βThe truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind.β
βThere is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.β
β Gautama Buddha
βThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.β
βChange your life today. Do not gamble on the future, act now, without delay.β
β Simone de Beauvoir
βNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.β
β Democritus
βThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.β
βAll great changes are preceded by chaos.β
βWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.β
β Mark Twain
βBefore a man can do things, there must be things he will not do.β
β Mencius
βWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.β
β Lucretius
βThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.β
β Albert Einstein
βThe only way to have a friend is to be one.β
βAdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.β
β Horace
βAll of mans miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.β
βIt is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.β
βWhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.β
β Maya Angelou
βNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.β
β James Baldwin
βThe sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about everything.β
β Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
βKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βFortune favors the brave.β
β Terence
βWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.β
βThe soul that is not trained by experience has learned nothing.β
β Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib
βEvery action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.β
β James Clear
βAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.β
β Henry Ford
βNo society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.β
β Adam Smith
βThe best way to predict the future is to create it.β
β Peter Drucker
βBe curious, not judgmental.β
β Walt Whitman
βIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.β
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βBe realistic: plan for a miracle.β
β Osho
βThe greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.β
βI learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.β
β Nelson Mandela
βWhat we think, we become.β
β Buddha
βGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.β
β Abraham Lincoln
βThe wise are not learned; the learned are not wise.β
βMan is the measure of all things.β
β Protagoras
βThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.β
β William James
βA thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.β
β Saadi Shirazi
βHe who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.β
βLife can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.β
β Soren Kierkegaard
βIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.β
β Isaac Newton
βGo confidently in the direction of your dreams.β
βNot to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.β
β Antisthenes
βThe secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.β
β Paulo Coelho
βA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.β
βWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.β
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βRaise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.β
β Rumi
βNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.β
β Pema Chodron
βThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
βIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.β
βWherever you are is the entry point.β
β Kabir
βIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.β
β Diogenes
βDo I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.β
βThe measure of intelligence is the ability to change.β
βRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.β
βThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.β
βThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βPeace is not an absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.β
β Baruch Spinoza
βAn ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.β
βWind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them.β
βEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.β
β Leo Tolstoy
βI 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.β
βIn a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.β
β George Orwell
βThe wound is the place where the light enters you.β
βI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.β
βDesire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.β
β Naval Ravikant
βExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.β
β Oscar Wilde
βIf we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.β
β Noam Chomsky
βThat which does not destroy us makes us stronger.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βThe cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.β
β W.E.B. Du Bois
βClear is kind. Unclear is unkind.β
βQuestion everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.β
β Euripides
βSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.β
βMan is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.β
β Albert Camus
βIf there is a book that you want to read but it has not been written yet, you must be the one to write it.β
β Toni Morrison
βIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.β
βKnowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.β
βWhat you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.β
β Jane Goodall
βThe price of greatness is responsibility.β
β Winston Churchill
βCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.β
βWell done is better than well said.β
β Benjamin Franklin
βBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.β
β Philo of Alexandria
βYou cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βThe wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.β
βThe fears we do not face become our limits.β
β Robin Sharma
βWhat important truth do very few people agree with you on?β
β Peter Thiel
βEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.β
βWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.β
β Carl Jung
βWhen I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.β
βThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.β
β Ludwig Wittgenstein
βGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.β
β Maimonides
βI am still learning.β
β Michelangelo
βThe best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.β
βThe good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.β
β Bertrand Russell
βEnlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.β
β Adyashanti
βBe less curious about people and more curious about ideas.β
β Marie Curie
βThe trouble is, you think you have time.β
β Jack Kornfield
βThe 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.β
β Hafiz
βIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.β
βThere is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within.β
β Miyamoto Musashi
βWe are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that we eventually are unable to recognize ourselves.β
β La Rochefoucauld
βBe the change you wish to see in the world.β
βThe time is always right to do what is right.β
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βPatience is the companion of wisdom.β
βA fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.β
β William Blake
βWhat we know is a drop, what we do not know is an ocean.β
βWhen something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.β
β Elon Musk
βSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.β
β Carl Sagan
βWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.β
βA room without books is like a body without a soul.β
β Cicero
βHow people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.β
β Wayne Dyer
βA wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.β
β Baltasar Gracian
βTry not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.β
βThe measure of a man is what he does with power.β
βNo man is free who is not master of himself.β
βIt is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.β
β Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
βOpinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.β
βBy 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.β
βEveryone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.β
β Niccolo Machiavelli
βIf you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?β
βWonder is the beginning of wisdom.β
βThere is no success without hardship.β
β Sophocles
βThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.β
βWhen you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100 percent of the time.β
β Byron Katie
βThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self.β
βThe whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.β
βWisdom comes through suffering.β
β Aeschylus
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.β
β Simone Weil
βDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.β
β Matsuo BashΕ
βAll the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity.β
βThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.β
β Richard Feynman
βI 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.β
β Herman Hesse
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.β
βIf you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.β
β Amit Ray
βTrust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.β
β Solomon
βMany of life failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.β
β Thomas Edison
βTurn your wounds into wisdom.β
β Oprah Winfrey
βHe who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.β
βBe happy for this moment. This moment is your life.β
β Omar Khayyam
βThe only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.β
β Seth Godin
βTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.β
βTo define is to limit.β
βYou become what you believe.β
βFortune favors the bold.β
β Virgil
βIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.β
β Booker T. Washington
βDo not take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.β
β Don Miguel Ruiz
βSilence is better than unmeaning words.β
βWe must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.β
β Joseph Campbell
βThe desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.β
β Tacitus
βThe only constant in life is change.β
β Heraclitus
βI think, therefore I am.β
β Rene Descartes
βMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.β
βAn idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.β
βWise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men.β
β Cato the Elder
βWho is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.β
βTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.β
β Arthur Schopenhauer
βI am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.β
β Louisa May Alcott
βAccept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.β
βThe doors of wisdom are never shut.β
βSet your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.β
βIn the long run, the market always wins.β
β Marc Andreessen
βThe wise man does at once what the fool does finally.β
β NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
