Wisdom Quotes

You can observe a lot just by watching.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Be the chief but never the lord.

What you give is what you get.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

You'll see it when you believe it.

To lead people walk behind them.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

God always takes the simplest way.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

Be as you wish to seem.

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

He is able who thinks he is able.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

The best teacher is experience learned from failures.

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

You give before you get.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough theyre yours.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

If you cannot be silent be brilliant and thoughtful.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

What we think, we become.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

The simplest things are often the truest.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

You have to believe in yourself.

Our intention creates our reality.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

I think and that is all that I am.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

We choose our destiny in the way we treat others.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Kind words will unlock an iron door.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Follow your instincts. That is where true wisdom manifests itself.

There never was a good knife made of bad steel.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Imagination rules the world.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Silence is deep as Eternity, Speech is shallow as Time.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The cautious seldom err.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.

In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Transformation doesn't take place with a vacuum; instead, it occurs when we are indirectly and directly connected to all those around us.

Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

I will not be concerned at other men is not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our previous experiences.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Many people think of prosperity that concerns money only to forget that true prosperity is of the mind.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

The key to transforming our hearts and minds is to have an understanding of how our thoughts and emotions work.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

To give hope to someone occurs when you teach them how to use the tools to do it for themselves.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonourable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Responsibility is not inherited, it is a choice that everyone needs to make at some point in their life.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

Your outlook on life is a direct reflection on how much you like yourself.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Meaning is not what you start with but what you end up with.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.

Ignorance never settle a question.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them.

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone elses.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

It is not the mistake that has the most power, instead, it is learning from the mistake to advance your own attributes.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

The greatest antidote to insecurity and the sense of fear is compassion — it brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength

To be thoughtful and kind only takes a few seconds compared to the timeless hurt caused by one rude gesture.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

If you have no respect for your own values how can you be worthy of respect from others.

To choose what is difficult all ones days, as if it were easy, that is faith.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in…

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll…

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our…

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might…

When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you…

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you…

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and…

Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms — to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones…

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you're…

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

You must train your intuition — you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and…

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others.

When fate hands us a lemon, lets try to make lemonade.

Truth isn't all about what actually happens but more about how what has happened is interpreted.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

As you think, so shall you become.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

It can't be spring if your heart is filled with past failures.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

The one who always loses, is the only person who gets the reward.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Things do not change, we change.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

It is difficult to achieve a spirit of genuine cooperation as long as people remain indifferent to the feelings and happiness of others.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

I may not know everything, but everything is not known yet anyway.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red spotlight... The truly wise person is colour-blind.

Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, Something…

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent…

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our…

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a months study of books.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

Spring is a time for rebirth and the fulfilment of new life.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

If you want to study yourself — look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people — look into your own heart.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great…

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to…

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Respect is not something that you can ask for, buy or borrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no matter their background or status.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive…

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads…

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical.Expect more than others think is…

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without…

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Sincerity is the way of Heaven. The attainment of sincerity is the way of men.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls…

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Almost everything comes from nothing.

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Knowledge has three degrees — opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third…

Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.

To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that…

Never promise more than you can perform.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

The cosmos is neither moral or immoral; only people are. He who would move the world must first move himself.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the…

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that…

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I endeavour to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

Example has more followers than reason.

One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is…

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.

Be here now.

The only way out is in.

Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.

The sign of intelligence is that you are always wondering. Idiots are always sure about everything they are doing in their life.

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be…

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very…

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you never can fly.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

The Child is father of the Man.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Forgiveness adorns only the serpent that has venom; what worth has the one that is toothless, venomless, meek and mild?

When destruction descends upon man, his reason is the first to die.

The purpose of literature is the criticism of life.

What a wretched custom — the man who could not get even a rag to cover his body while alive must be given a new shroud when he is dead.

Bengal has no history of her own; that history must be written by Bengalis themselves.

O Bengal, countless gems lie stored within your treasury.

We are two flowers upon a single stalk — the Hindu and the Muslim.

I sing the song of equality, where all barriers and differences have melted into one.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish to believe.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten years.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the…

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere…

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can…

I don't believe in taking the right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

In God we trust; everybody else brings data to the table.

Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.

When in doubt, disclose.

Till the full stop doesn't come, the sentence is not complete.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been like that.

Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

Success is not a good teacher. Failure makes you humble.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much respect as I give my success.

That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've…

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity; more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth.

Eureka!

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.

There is no royal road to geometry.

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.

Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

Add four to one hundred, multiply by eight, and then add sixty-two thousand. The result is approximately the circumference of a circle of diameter…

Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my…

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can…

I have ventured to send you the accompanying article for your perusal and opinion.

No power is more expensive than no power.

A scientific institution has to be grown with great care like a tree — its growth in terms of quality and achievement can only be accelerated to a…

We must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society.

The development of a nation is intimately linked with the understanding and application of science and technology by its people.

India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between the wisdom of its rural people and the skill of its professionals.

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches it awkwardly.

I dedicate today this Institute — not merely a laboratory but a temple.

An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.

No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to…