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Quotes About Wisdom

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
~ Gautama Buddha
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
~ Gautama Buddha
Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.
~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
~ Bertrand Russell
Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
~ Voltaire
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The days that make us happy make us wise
~ John Masefield
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
~ Sophocles
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
~ Stephen Fry
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
~ Socrates
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
~ Sydney Smith
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
~ Peter Lynch
Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.
~ Ja'far al-Sadiq
A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
~ Epictetus
Books make up no small part of human happiness.
~ Frederick The Great
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
~ Frank Herbert
You can never learn anything that you did not already know
~ Aristotle
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
~ Bertrand Russell