Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861–August 7 1941) was an Indian writer, philosopher, and reformer who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was instrumental in reshaping Indian literature, and the Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Rabindranath Tagore.

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”

“It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”

“Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.”

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

“The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.”

“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.”

“I’ve travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I’ve spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.”

“Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.”

“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

“Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.”

“The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.”

“Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.”

“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

“Power said to the world, “You are mine.” The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, “I am thine.” The world gave it the freedom of her house.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

“To find God, you must welcome everything.”

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (February 25th or 27th, 1861–March 30th, 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and clairvoyant. He published may works including The Philosophy of Freedom, and founded an esoteric spiritual movement called anthroposophy.

Steiner often noted the core spiritual unity of all humans and harshly criticized racial prejudice. He believed the individual nature of any person is far more important than race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. He also believed that those aspects of each person are transient and superficial because of reincarnation, and how we all incarnate in many different countries, religions, and cultures.

Steiner’s work has influenced philosophers, writers, economist, ecologist, artists, actors, cinema directors, composers, and conductors

Below we list some words of wisdom by Rudolf Steiner.

“Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.”

“To be free is to be capable of thinking one’s own thoughts – not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one’s deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one’s individuality.”

“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.”

“Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled – thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.”

“To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.”

“The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child’s experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.”

“When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.”

“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.”

“Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.”

“The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.”

“You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.”

“Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.”

“Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.”

“For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.”

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”

“If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.”

“When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.”

“When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.”

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Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869–January 30 1948) was an Indian civil rights leader who was instrumental in India’s independence from Great Britain. He promoted non-violent resistance and helped rally workers against discrimination and government excess taxation. 

Below we list some words of wisdom from Mahatma Gandhi. 

“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.” 

“Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.” 

“Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.” 

“Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.”

“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” 

“There are two days in the year that we cannot do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.”

“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” 

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” 

“Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.” 

“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.” 

“God has no religion.” 

“For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.” 

“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.” 

“Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.” 

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” 

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall…think of it, always.” 

“Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.” 

“It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God’s hands.” 

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Genghis Khan (1162 – August 25, 1227) is considered to be one of the greatest conquerors ever. He founded the Mongol Empire, which eventually became the largest contiguous kingdom in the world. Under his rule of religious tolerance, all were free to practice the religion of their choice. He was also instrumental in expanding global trade and communication through the success of the Silk Road.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Genghis Khan.

“A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.”

“I will rule them by fixed laws so that rest and happiness shall prevail in the world.”

“Say ye unto the Khwarizmi that I am the sovereign of the sunrise, and he is the sovereign of the sunset. Let there be between us a firm treaty of friendship, amity, and peace, and let traders and caravans on both sides come and go.”

“When it was wet, we bore the wet together, when it was cold, we bore the cold together.”

“The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.”

“Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can break you like frail arrows, one at a time.”

“Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds.”

“Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.”

“If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.”

“I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. In which case, you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.”

“I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share our riches.”

“As my calling is high, the obligations incumbent upon me are also heavy; and I fear that in my ruling there may be something wanting.”

“An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.”

“Just as God gave different fingers to the hand, so has He given different ways to men.”

“Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns – Not I.”

“The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.”

“There is no good in anything until it is finished.”

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Bruce Lee, born Lee Jun-fan (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist, martial arts instructor, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and philosopher. He’s considered to be the most influential martial artist of all time and helped change the way Asians were represented in American movies.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Bruce Lee.

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”

“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.” 

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”

“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self-evaluation and self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.”

“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.”

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

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

“If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

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

“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

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

“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

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

“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“Be self-aware, rather than a repetitious robot”

“As you think, so shall you become.”

“Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.”

“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”

“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”

“All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.”

“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

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

“The word ‘superstar’ is an illusion”

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Socrates (469-399 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher and one of the originators of Western philosophy. He is most known for the Socratic method, which involves repeatedly asking questions instead of relaying information. Due to his unconventional style and outspoken pursuit of the truth, he was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Socrates.

“No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.”

“A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.”

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”

“Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It’s true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don’t care. Once you’ve tasted the truth, you won’t ever want to go back to being ignorant.”

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”

“He is the richest who is content with the least.”

“If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.”

“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”

“Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.”

“Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practice daily these eighteen “ities” You will soon attain immortality.”

“Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don’t have the best of everything… they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”

“The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.”

“The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.”

“The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.”

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Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828—November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer and is recognized as one of the greatest authors of all time. War and Peace is widely considered his best work. 

Below we list some words of wisdom from Leo Tolstoy. 

“The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.” 

“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.” 

“Boredom: the desire for desires.” 

“Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.” 

“Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.” 

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

“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.” 

“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” 

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” 

“People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.” 

“The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.” 

“School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children’s conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.” 

“Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: “the gift of seeing what others have not seen.” 

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.” 

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.” 

“As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence – as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.” 

“Mathematics is the queen of disciplines…. it will drive the nonsense out of your head!” 

“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life—becoming a better person.” 

“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.” 

“In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.” 

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