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Aphorisms 62
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
— Oscar Wilde
If you don't know how much you need, the default easily becomes more.
— Ryan Holiday
The power of the Eye of the Heart, which produces insight, is vastly superior to the power of thought, which produces…
— E.F. Schumacher
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
— Lao Tzu
It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
I love quotes… but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it's worthless.
— Tony Robbins
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
— Mae West
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
— Petrarch
He that would thrive must ask his wife.
— English Proverb
No worthy problem is ever solved on the plane of its original conception.
— Albert Einstein
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of others, instead, seek what they sought.
— Matsuo Bashō
When the music changes, so must the dance.
— African Proverb
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt it.
— Henry J. Kaiser
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
— W. H. Auden
If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
— Buddha
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
— Seneca
There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea…
— Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
— Stephen Hawking
An idea is one that opens a path, and a path is one that leads to truth.
— Anonymous
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.
— Elbert Hubbard
The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of…
— Captain J.A. Hadfield
Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach.
— Michel de Montaigne
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
— Albert Einstein
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
— Henri Bergson
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is…
— George Bernanos
We must strive to achieve that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.
— John Gardner
Progress means simplifying, not complicating.
— Bruno Munari
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
— Charles Mingus
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain…
— Robert Service
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
— Horace
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
What matters is not what is said, but what is understood from it.
— Anonymous
A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his friends.
— Baltasar Gracián
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
— John A. Morrison
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
— T.S. Eliot
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
— Auguste Rodin
To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
— Lao Tzu
Wisdom is extracting facts from data, then identifying which facts matter.
— Anonymous
The wise see the signal in the noise.
— Anonymous
Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
— Ralph Sockman
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
— Elbert Hubbard
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Your limitations may not prevent you from reaching your goals, only if you know them.
— Cumhur Kılınçer
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
— Harry Truman
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
— Norman Cousins
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
— Mark Twain
Advise friends in secret; praise them openly.
— Publilius Syrus
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
— Lao Tzu
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
— Lin Yutang
He who does not crack the walnut's shell to reach its core assumes the whole walnut is shell.
— Sultan II. Abdülhamid Han
None of us are as smart as all of us.
— Japanese Proverb
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
— Albert Einstein
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be…
— Friedrich Nietzche