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Safety Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Safety
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise Quotes and Sayings
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
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Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Knows Quotes and Sayings
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself has discernment.
- Lao Tzu
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
Without stirring abroad,
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window,
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes, The less one knows.
- Lao Tzu
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
There are two kinds of stones,
as everyone knows,
one of which rolls.
- Amelia Earhart
The world turns aside to let any man pass
who knows where he is going.
- Epictetus
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
