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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"Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World."The Alchemist
"Your heart understands the language of the world."The Alchemist
"The language of the world is written in signs and omens."The Alchemist
"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot comprehend."The Alchemist
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding."Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"You are perfect as you are, right now."Chiang
"The price of perfection is a price which I do not pay."Chiang
"To understand more is not always to know more."Chiang
"The path of mastery is the path of simplicity."Chiang
"Are they not the same wounds that are cleansing and healing?"The Prophet (Almustafa)
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"And the master's voice is but a little ripple upon the dark, deep sea."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"Trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"And a transgression is but a torch dropped in the path of the prudent as a warning."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"Reason is a powder keg in the minds of fools."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."The Prophet (Almustafa)
"When someone is seeking, it happens quite often that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything."Siddhartha
"Perhaps everything that happens to a man is meant to improve him."Siddhartha
"What we resist, we make stronger; what we accept, we transform."Siddhartha
"Accept what you are able to do and strive to do it every day."Morrie Schwartz
"We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve."Morrie Schwartz
"All this emphasis on youth—I don't buy it."Morrie Schwartz
"The worst part of my disease is that I can still think."Morrie Schwartz
"I have lots of things to say. I'm a talker."Morrie Schwartz
"People are only mean when they're threatened."Morrie Schwartz
"Find a way to acknowledge your emotions without being overpowered by them."Morrie Schwartz
"Here is a very interesting thing to think about: every question that you think is unanswered only means you don't like the answer you've already been given."Chiang
"Perspective. That's it. Everything that matters is in perspective."Chiang
