Wisdom Quotes

The best minds across centuries have wrestled with what it means to be wise. These quotes capture their hard-won insights.

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"If you can do something about it, why worry? If you cannot do something about it, why worry?"
Dalai Lama (14th)
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"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. When you are spiritually awakened, all good things come to you naturally."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"The Great Mother can be realized through bhakti, knowledge, and renunciation."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"The breeze of the Divine is always blowing; we need only spread our sail to catch it."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"The more you come to know the mind, the more you realize that it is not the real you."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"The Divine Mother plays hide and seek with Herself in all the worlds and in all beings."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"Do not repeat the words of wise men, but make their spirit your own."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"When you know yourself truly, you know all that needs to be known."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"The lotus grows in mud but remains unstained. So too, the soul in the world."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"When you know the Divine, you know yourself."
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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"Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face."
Saint Paul
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"Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."
Saint Paul
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"Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—think about such things."
Saint Paul
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"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."
Saint Paul
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"Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror."
Saint Paul
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"Beware of no man more than of yourself."
Martin Luther
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"The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom."
Martin Luther
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"God sometimes uses our passions as instruments of righteousness."
Martin Luther
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"A man may go to heaven with half the learning of another."
Martin Luther
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"This life therefore is not godliness but the process of becoming godly."
Martin Luther
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"As the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."
Martin Luther
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"God is waiting for us to be mature enough to take dominion."
Martin Luther
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"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion."
Saint Peter
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"It is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people."
Saint Peter
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"These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith may result in praise, glory and honor."
Saint Peter
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"Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled."
Saint Peter
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"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths."
Saint Peter
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"Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand."
Saint Peter
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"This was not revealed to you by flesh and blood."
Saint Peter