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Quotes about Wisdom
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
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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
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You create stress in your life by getting angry,
and you can instantly remove
that stress by granting forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
- Lao Tzu
There is a crack in everything,
that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is a reflection of intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
Your life becomes what you believe.
- Jewel
The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Be skeptical, but learn to listen.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
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