Wisest quotes of all time

Sometimes the word quote is used as shorthand for quotation, a passage of speech or writing that’s repeated word for word.

As a verb, to quote means to repeat someone’s words, attributing them to their originator.

When one writes out a quote, one puts the other person’s words in quotation marks (“Aha!”).

To my Dearest Emily

A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity and Madness, that this world has become lately… Sad…

May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you on Your path !

From Papi with Love

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules…

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius…”
Steve Jobs

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.

There are no limits.

There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

”Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?”

He replied, “Nothing!”

However, Buddha said, let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old, Age and Death.”
Buddha

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”
Alexandra K. Trenfor

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Plato

“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

Man: ‘I want happiness’

Buddha: First remove ”I”, this is Ego.

Then remove “Want”, this is desire.

Finally all that remains is “Happiness.”
Buddha

“Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
Bruce Lee

“Never let school interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain

“The real question is not whether life exists after death.

The real question is whether you are alive before your death.”
Osho

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Lao Tzu

“He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
Lao Tzu

“You have enemies?

Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”
Albert Einstein

“Loneliness is and will always be the most abundant source of human experience.”
Swami Vivekanand

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
J.K. Rowling

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
Dalai Lama

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”
Christopher McCandless

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I wrote down “Happy.”

They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon

“Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Albert Einstein

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry van Dyke

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
Wayne Gretzky

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Socrates

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
Walt Disney Company, “Mulan”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
Gautama Buddha

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Eckhart Tolle

“The truth is, everyone’s going to hurt you.

You’ve just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
J.K. Rowling

“A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle”
Buddha

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
Ancient Chinese Proverb

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
Carl Jung

“Never be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one’s definition of your life,
define yourself.”
Robert Frost

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
Confucius

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
JK Rowling

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
Eckhart Tolle

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T. S. Eliot

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
Robert Frost

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
John F. Kennedy

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”— Albert Einstein

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” ~ Steve Jobs

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.

It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t.

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
Charles Bukowski

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.”
Mark Twain

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?

Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.

Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“All life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make, the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Know thyself.”
Socrates

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

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

“Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”
Aristotle

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
George Santayana

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Aristotle

Truth Quotes

In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning Truth, is the goddess of Truth, a daughter of Chronos, the God of Time.

For my dearest copăcel Emily,

Wish that you’ll find a drop of wisdom in an ocean of words!

Because never forget Papi, the ocean was formed drop by drop 🙂🥰🙃

“Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage.

Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.

Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another.

Sapere aude!

‘Have courage to use your own reason!’- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
Immanuel Kant, “An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?”

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

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it.

I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against.

I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
Malcolm X

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
George Carlin

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved.

So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind.

Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
John Lennon

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.

If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”
William Faulkner

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

You trade in your reality for a role.

You trade in your sense for an act.

You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level.

It’s got to happen inside first.”
Jim MORRISON

“There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.

Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Marcus Aurelius , “Meditations”

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States.

Ask any Indian.”
Robert Orben

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something.

Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy, “A Confession”

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
Carl Sagan

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
George Washington

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Carl Sagan

“There are two ways to be fooled.

One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“1492.

As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America.

Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that.

1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
Kurt Vonnegut

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
George Orwell, “1984”

“If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.”
Terry Goodkind

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed.

It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

“Believe those who are seeking the truth.

Doubt those who find it.”
Andre Gide

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
C.S. Lewis

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau

“The truth is always an abyss.

One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
Franz Kafka

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something.

Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Belief can be manipulated.

Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Frank Herbert

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Carl Sagan

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S. Lewis

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy, “A Confession”

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
George Orwell

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
Albert Camus

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
Voltaire

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Niels Bohr

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
Jason Mraz

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
René Descartes

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
Robert M. Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values” (Phaedrus, #1)

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
Steve Jobs

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti, “The First and Last Freedom”

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
Jean Paul Sarte

“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the source of all true art and all science.

He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
Albert Einstein

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
Osho

“Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
Sigmund Freud, “The Future of an Illusion”

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
Plato

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,… [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.”
Noam Chomsky, “Propaganda and the Public Mind”

“The truth may be puzzling.

It may take some work to grapple with.

It may be counterintuitive.

It may contradict deeply held prejudices.

It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true.

But our preferences do not determine what’s true.”
Carl Sagan

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
Arthur Conan Doyle

“We all know that Art is not truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand.

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
Pablo Picasso

“Honest is how I want to look.

The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.”
Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor”

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Above all, do not lie to yourself.

A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.

Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes form lying continually to others and himself.

A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. it sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn’t it?

And surely he knows that no one has offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked up on a word and made a mountain out of a pea–he knows all of that, and still he is the first to take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he reaches the point of real hostility…”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
Nietzsche

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
Victor Hugo

“I always tell the truth.

Even when I lie.”
Al Pacino

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”
John Lennon

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
Blaise Pascal

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Isaac Newton

“When everything gets answered, it’s fake.”
Sean Penn

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
John Locke

“Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.”
Octavia E. Butler, “Parable of the Talents”

“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him.

Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time.

We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
Albert Einstein

“Knowledge is a destination.

Truth, the journey.”
Terry Goodkind

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
Edmund Burke

“Love speaks in flowers.

Truth requires thorns.”
Leigh Bardugo, “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic”

“We are what we believe we are!”
C.S. Lewis

“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change.

I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”
Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

“People who fit don’t seek.

The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
Shannon L. Alder

“It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”
Blaise Pascal

“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, “Brushstrokes of a Gadfly”

“Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning.”
Santosh Kalwar

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
Jules Verne, “Journey to the Center of the Earth”

“At times to be silent is to lie.

You will win because you have enough brute force.

But you will not convince.

For to convince you need to persuade.

And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right.”
Miguel de Unamuno

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To my Dearest EmilyA drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity and Madness, that this world has become lately… Sad…May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you on Your path ! From Papi with Love

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To my Dearest Emily

A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity and Madness, that this world has become lately… Sad…

May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you on Your path !

From Papi with Love

For my dearest copăcel Emily,

Wish that you’ll find a drop of wisdom in an ocean of words!

Because never forget Papi, the ocean was formed drop by drop 🙂🥰🙃