Top 200 Intelligent Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

52. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

— Albert Camus

53. “Work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

54. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

— Dale Carnegie

55. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

56. “I think, therefore I am.”

— René Descartes

57. “Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

58. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

— Oscar Wilde

59. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

— Nelson Henderson

60. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”

— Seneca

61. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

— Buddha

62. “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”

— Warren Buffett

63. “I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.”

— Socrates

64. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”

— Henry Ford

65. “You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.”

— Warren Buffett

66. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

67. “It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.”

— Peter F. Drucker

68. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

— Peter F. Drucker

69. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”

— Brian Tracy

70. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

71. “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

— Confucius

72. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Socrates

73. “When in doubt, choose to live.”

— Terry Pratchett

74. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

75. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

— Denis Waitley

76. “Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.”

— Simon Sinek

77. “Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.”

— Cale Yarborough

78. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

79. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

80. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

— George Bernard Shaw

81. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

— John Dewey

82. “Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.”

— Warren Buffett

83. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

— Buddha

84. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

— Oscar Wilde

85. “Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

86. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

87. “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

— Albert Camus

88. “The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

89. “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.”

— Edward R. Murrow

90. “The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.”

— Simon Sinek

91. “Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.”

— Denzel Washington

92. “Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”

— Steve Jobs

93. “Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

94. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

— Marcus Aurelius

95. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

96. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

— John Wooden

97. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Lao Tzu

98. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

— Winston Churchill

99. “Prevention is better than cure.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

100. “A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.”

— Simon Sinek