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Wisdom is knowing what to do next. ...
by David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan

Related topics: Wisdom

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie