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Quotes about Wisdom
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
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The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
- Rumi
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting
on his past actions and their motives -
of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Charles Darwin
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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