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Quotes about Wisdom
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Questions are a microscope peering into the depths of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
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A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Better late than never.
- Proverb
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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