Wisdom Quotes - Page 20

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  There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Inspirational, Business, Average

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• There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Wish, Knowledgeable

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• We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

  Archilochus

  Fall, Warrior, Expectations

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• There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Awareness, Chakra

  Hard Times bk. 3, ch. 1 (1854)

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• The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Made, Fine

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Integrity, Wise Words

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• Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Grief, Eye

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• One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Capacity, Outreach

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• As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Spiritual, Space

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.93, New World Library

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Educational, Creativity, Learning

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• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

  George Sand

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Jealousy, Peace

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intelligent, Hatred, Demand

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.403, Psychology Press

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• The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Judging, Feels Right

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137

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• When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Use, Virtue

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 16, 2014

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 17, 2011

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• Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Wise, Religious

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• It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

  Isocrates

  Depression, Mistake, Adversity

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