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Quotes about Wisdom
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
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessings flow toward gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
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
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Accept Circumstances - Choose Responses.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We hate in others what we most fear in ourselves.
- Anonymous
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr
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
He who has health has hope,
and he who has hope has everything.
- Anonymous
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Better late than never.
- Proverb
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All paths are the same, leading nowhere.
Therefore, pick a path with heart!
- Carlos Castaneda
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
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