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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #3
    “we are all wasting time with someone, but we never know who till it's time for them to leave.”
    hadhoud

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #7
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #11
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #12
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    Confucious

  • #13
    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #15
    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    Voltaire

  • #16
    Charles M. Schulz
    “I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
    Charles Schultz

  • #17
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #18
    Stephen W. Hawking
    “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #19
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

  • #20
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #21
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #22
    George R.R. Martin
    “It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #23
    “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
    Michael Levine

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden



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