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काल करे सो आज कर, आज करे सो अब। पल में प्रलय होएगी, बहुरि करेगा कब।

— कबीर Hindi
Life Wisdom

निंदक नियरे राखिए, आँगन कुटी छवाय। बिन पानी साबुन बिना, निर्मल करे सुभाय।

— कबीर Hindi
Wisdom

तू कहता कागज की लेखी, मैं कहता आँखिन की देखी।

— कबीर Hindi
Truth Wisdom

चाह गई चिंता मिटी, मनुआ बेपरवाह। जिनको कछु नहिं चाहिए, वे साहन के साह।

— कबीर Hindi
Wisdom Happiness

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

— Confucius
Wisdom

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

— Voltaire
Education & Knowledge Wisdom

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

— Maya Angelou
Inspirational Wisdom

We learn from failure, not from success!

— Bram Stoker
Education & Knowledge Wisdom

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

— John Keats
Life Sadness & Pain Change & Growth Art & Beauty Wisdom

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

— Ludwig van Beethoven
Philosophy Art & Beauty Wisdom

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

— Paulo Coelho
Wisdom

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

— Bruce Lee
Self & Identity Wisdom

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

— Thomas Paine
Education & Knowledge Wisdom

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

— Rumi
Wisdom

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

— Leo Tolstoy
Wisdom

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.