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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy · Three Methods of Reform, 1900
“Being seen is not the same as being known. But it is often enough to make us act as though we are.”
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
Isaac Newton
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain · Notebook, 1904
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bill Keane · Family Circus, widely attributed
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology, 399 BC
