Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (10)
Quotes about Wisdom

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

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Things are seldom what they seem.
- William S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore)

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda

Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

The best relationship is one in which
your love for each other
exceeds your need for each other.
- Anonymous

The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill

Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie

Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes

It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes

I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu

For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Anger burns, resentment smolders.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

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

The River of Life has no judgments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel

There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous

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

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca

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

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha

What is, is right.
- Alexander Pope

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Life is lived between the lines.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

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