Wisdom Quotes And Sayings

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“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen

“Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
– Scott Westerfeld

“No man was ever wise by chance.”
– Seneca

“Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
– Shannon Hale

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Siddh?rtha Gautama

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
– Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates

“Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.”
– Sophocles

“The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.”
– Sophocles

“Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”
– Tobia Smollett

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
– Thomas Stephen Szasz

“If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.”
– Tom Peters

“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
– Tom Wilson

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
– Walter Lippmann

“There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.”
– Walter Reuther

“And throughout all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.”
– William Blake

“Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.”
– William Edgar Stafford

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
– William James

“The difference between a wise and foolish man is this–the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.”
– William Scott Downey

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.”
– William Arthur Ward

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