Wise Quotes
4345 quotes by 2161 authors
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born…
— James Whistler
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Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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Literature is the voice of the human heart.
— Graham Swift
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If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.
— Brian Johnson
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Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom
— Umberto Eco
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Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.
— Saint Augustine
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For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.
— Frederick Franck
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Your voice takes you to your heart.
— Gabrielle Roth
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a…
— Julia Cameron
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
— Katharine Hepburn
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There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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There is danger in singing someone else's song.
— Don G. Campbell
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There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged…
— Peter London
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The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
— Jonathan Goldman
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The song and the land are one.
— Bruce Chatwin
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The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
— Julia Cameron
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