Wisdom Quotes - Page 19

• When you make a choice, you change the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law Of Attraction, Choices, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 13, 2011

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• Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

  Hosea Ballou

  Weed, Flower, Growth

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• Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Mistake, Wine, Mixing

  "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1944.

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• Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

  Edgar Cayce

  Encouraging, Wise, Support

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

  Dora Russell

  Offering, Guidance

  "Tamarisk Tree Volume 3: Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell , ch. 14, 1985.

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Kings, Pride

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

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• And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Thinking, Simplicity

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.261

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• I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Home, Heaven

  Philip James Bailey, “Fetus - XI”

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• There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

  Nelson Mandela

  Opportunity, Equality, Long Walks

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• What you think you become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Peace, Buddhist

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• It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Law, Class, Differences

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• You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

  Richard Baxter

  Cards, Dice, Cast Away

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Real, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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• Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Inspirational, Karma, Spiritual

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.52, Harmony

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Insperational

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ambition, Virtue, Fame

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• A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

  Evan Esar

  Wise, Unnecessary, Wise Words

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• The important things are always simple.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Important, Important Things

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• Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

  Tom Flynn

  Love, Rose, Novelists

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