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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #4
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #5
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #6
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • #7
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #12
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    Jimi Hendrix

  • #15
    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #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
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #18
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #19
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Socrates

  • #20
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
    What's a sundial in the shade?”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    C. S. Lewis

  • #23
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #24
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #25
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #26
    George Orwell
    “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
    George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #28
    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #29
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #30
    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



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