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Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (16)
Quotes about Wisdom
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
- Rumi
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
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