Wisdom Quotes and Sayings (16)
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The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel

When an idea reaches critical mass
there is no stopping the shift
its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey

The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

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

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

We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton

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

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass

Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope

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

We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To have done anything just for money
is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
- Lao Tzu

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

We climb the steps to nowhere - always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- 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

Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche

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

I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha

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

Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran

There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie

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