- It’s smart to emulate what works. It’s smarter to find out what works for you. Maxime Lagacé
- A rational person understands people can act irrationally. An irrational person believes people always act rationally. Angela Jiang
- Ignore what won’t impact your life. @orangebook_
- Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world? Ramana Maharshi
- The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it refuses nothing. It receives but does not keep. Chuang Tzu
- Everything must be questioned. Then the mind becomes extraordinarily sensitive, alive and intelligent. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Getting wiser is a combination of humility and diligent curiosity. Without the first, the second is useless: You won’t truly learn anything. Shane Parrish
- What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end. Warren Buffett
- “Bitterness leads to misery.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. Dogen
- “We are approaching a time where the masses will become wise and stop supporting the toxic pursuit of knowledge of Space and instead demand the closure of these biologically harmful industries.” ― Steven Magee
- Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. Alain de Botton (How Proust Can Change Your Life)
- 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
- “Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.” ― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
- Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. Yoda
- We choose outcomes as goals and treat processes as chores. A wiser approach is to set processes as goals and treat outcomes as by-products. Kunal (@CrazyPolymath)
- If anyone can refute me – show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective – I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
- Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Blaise Pascal
- Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory. Osho
- “Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.” ― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf
- The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions. Wesley Snipes
- The fools are preoccupied by things they can’t control. That’s why they are tense. The wise are indifferent to things they can’t control. That’s why they are calm. Maxime Lagacé
- A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. C.S. Lewis
- “The wiser you become, the more setbacks motivate you.” ― Maxime Lagacé
- Great doubts, deep wisdom. Small doubts, little wisdom. Chinese proverb
- “A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
- The only sustainable game worth playing is the one where you control nothing. Maxime Lagacé
- Teaching without words and working without doing are understood by very few. Lao Tzu
- If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom. African proverb