- “You don’t have to look nice to be wise.” ― Nadun Lokuliyanage
- Creative ideas will come to you in the quiet moment in between your thoughts. You are wiser than you think. Be still and see what happens. Haemin Sunim (See also: creativity quotes)
- Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy
- “Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot…Where’s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here’s the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it’s the good kind.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
- My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. Osho
- Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap. Albert Einstein
- You will find only what you bring in. Yoda
- Do not look down on other schools, but take from them whatever is good. Drop anything bad, even if it comes from your own school. Bukuyo Takeda
- “When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person’s way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.” ― Anne Holm, I Am David
- Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. Baltasar Gracián
- Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. George Henry Lewes
- “True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts
- “Living by faith, living by hope.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
- What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end. Warren Buffett
- “Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- A symptom of inner peace is a smile. The evidence is calmness. The consequences are meaning and happiness. The causes are curiosity, solitude and understanding. Maxime Lagacé
- “Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
- “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.” ― Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker’s Wife
- Either you create your circumstances or they will be created for you. The wise man creates, the fool ponders. Carlos Del Valle
- Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Skin in the Game)
- Intelligence lies in recognizing one’s own ignorance. Wisdom lies in the indifference to the pride of this realization. Kapil Gupta
- Modern society is defined by an excess of opportunity. We have more information, more products, and more options than ever before. As a result, curating, filtering, and refining are more important skills than ever before. Those who edit best will find the signal in the noise. James Clear
- If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
- “Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.” ― Horace
- The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind – that is the reason he is still. Zhuangzi
- You can learn a lot from a lot of people if you’re willing to listen and never think you know it all. Ed Latimore