369 Wisdom Quotes (Page-8) – 211-240
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― Francis of Assisi
212.
“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.”
― Holly Near
213.
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
214.
“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
― William Hazlitt
215.
“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.”
― Jane Fonda
216.
“Statistics may be defined as ‘a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty’.”
― W. Allen Wallis
217.
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
― Pericles
218.
“No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.”
― Winston Churchill
219.
“Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.”
― Ezra Taft Benson
220.
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus
221.
“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”
― Stephen Covey
222.
“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
― Carl Sandburg
223.
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
― Thomas Carlyle
224.
“In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.”
― Janet Jackson
225.
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward
226.
“Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.”
― Emile Zola
227.
“To know when to be generous, and when firm—this is wisdom.”
― Elbert Hubbard
228.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
229.
“The best weapon is to sit down and talk.”
― Nelson Mandela
230.
“Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
231.
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr
232.
“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
― Francis Bacon
233.
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
― Edmund Burke
234.
“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora
235.
“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”
― Mark Twain
Wise Words by Confucius
236.
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
― Confucius
237.
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius
238.
“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
239.
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
― Confucius
240.
“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.”
― Confucius
