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Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes

1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein

2. Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen

3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. —Wilson Mizner

4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. —Daniel J. Boorstin

5. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward

6. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. —Frank Wilczek

7. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. —Eric Hoffer

8. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein

9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert

wisdom and inspirational quotes10. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby

11. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. —Spanish Proverb

12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde

13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. —Harold Stephens

14. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler

15. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand —Chinese Proverb

16. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most. —Unknown Author

17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. —Wallace Wattles

18. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner

19. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. —Abraham Lincoln

20. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

Philosopher Quotes

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. – Henri Frederic Amiel

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you. – George Matthew Adams

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. – Confucius

Philosopher Quotes

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. – Confucius

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. – Friedrich Engels

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. – Blaise Pascal

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu

10 Famous Wisdom Quotes

1. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford

2. Where there is love, there is pain. – Spanish Proverb

3. It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

4. Comedy is an escape not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

5. I like a man who grins when he fights. – Winston Churchill

6. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. – Deng Ming-Dao

7. Anyone can hate. It costs to love. – John Williamson

8. True is the grief you carry without witnesses. – Marcus Martialis

9. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

10. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H. L. Mencken

Wednesday’s Quotes

This is just a random list of great quotes, but because today is Wednesday, let’s call them Wednesday’s Quotes :)

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

“To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are.” – Author Unknown

“Do what you can with what you’ve got wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke

“It is not length of Life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.” – Author Unknown

“The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.” – Russian Proverb

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” – Author Unknown

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” – Tim McGraw

“And sometimes when you turn, there is a shoulder to lean upon, a smile to believe in, a hand to hold. Those are the times your faith in the world is restored.” – Nirvikar Dahiya

“Laughter is the music of life.” – Sir William Osler

Insightful Quotes

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake

“Let him who would move the world, first move himself.” – Socrates

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“Do or do not, there is no try” – Yoda

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” – Nietzsche

“The Truth is everywhere and anywhere … just open your eyes and you will see it.” – Unknown


Famous Women Quotes

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. – Martha Washington

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. – Mother Teresa

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. – Oprah Winfrey

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt