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  • #1
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15527 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
    14001 likes

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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
    11163 likes

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    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
    11266 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
    8887 likes

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    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
    tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom
    8488 likes

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  • #9
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
    7773 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
    6328 likes

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  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
    6250 likes

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  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: be-yourself, be-yourself-inspirational, be-yourself-quote, be-yourself-quotes, heart, inner-voice, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, wisdom, wise
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: poetry, wisdom
    4442 likes

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    Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    “The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
    ― Marjorie Pay Hinckley
    tags: humour, wisdom
    3808 likes

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    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: education, inspirational, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
    4039 likes

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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
    3812 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: attitude, explain, gossip, life, people, public-opinion, time, wisdom
    4098 likes

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    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience
    3954 likes

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    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
    3197 likes

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  • #23
    Rick Riordan
    “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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    Paulo Coelho
    “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
    But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
    tags: encouragement, wisdom
    2638 likes

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  • #25
    Bruce Lee
    “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
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
    2718 likes

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  • #26
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
    2581 likes

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  • #27
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: humor, wisdom
    1861 likes

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  • #28
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton
    tags: sci-fi, wisdom
    1823 likes



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