Wisdom Quotes - Page 21

• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Understanding, Accumulation, One Thing

  Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.

  Rumi

  Children, Islamic, Opportunity

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, Thinking, World

  "Alan Watts Teaches Meditation". Audiobook by Alan Watts, 1992.

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• One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Yoga, Practice

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• The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 06, 2014

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• It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Friendship, Family, People

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt On Death And The Dark Knight". Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

  Hafez

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.

  Rupert Spira

  Spiritual, Heart, Space

  Rupert Spira (2016). “Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness”, New Harbinger Publications

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• In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

  Rupert Spira

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Understanding

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• Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!

  Ali Sina

  Islamic, Knowledge, Knows

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• Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Islamic, Fellowship, Lord

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• How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Life Lesson, Taken, Islamic

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• Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Islamic, Soul

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• Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Islamic, Self, Easy

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• The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Use, Persons

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• No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wise, Teacher

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

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• In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Running, Character

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.191

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• Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

  Hannah More

  Eye, Blessing, Views

  Hannah More (1827). “The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life”, p.112

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• The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Motivational, Determination, Resolute

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon's notes on English history”, Рипол Классик

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• The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

  Joseph Priestley

  Generations, Next, Folly

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• Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

  J. G. Holland

  Affinity

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• Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

  Alexander Pope

  Opinion, Scales, Providence

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.33

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• Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Parent, Intelligence, Love Wisdom

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.103

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