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Quotes about Wisdom

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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

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What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare PHOTO

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
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Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

 

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

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach

Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Become "a lover of what is."
- Byron Katie

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

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha

Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A chief event of life is the day in which
we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb

I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin

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

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb

Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe

A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic;
it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
- Vannevar Bush

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

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

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus


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