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Quotes about Wisdom
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
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We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Blessings flow toward gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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