Quotations on Wisdom

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.  Seek what they sought.  -- Basho

Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. 
-- Source Unknown

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.-- Heraclitus

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -- Henry Ward Beecher

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -- Henry David Thoreau