Wisdom Quotes - Page 37

• There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.

  Menander

  Wise, Love You, Genuine Love

  12 Copy quote

• People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

  Socrates

  Wise, People, Feds

  47 Copy quote

• Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Creating, Credit

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Soul, Pilots

  5 Copy quote

• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the shoe fits, wear it.

  Nicholas Breton

  Inspirational, Wise, Shoes

  89 Copy quote

• Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

  Horace Walpole

  Life, Atheist, Thinking

  Horace Walpole (1929). “The castle of Otranto”

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Will our Philosophy to later Life
  Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth,
  Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

  Julian Huxley

  Life, Philosophy, Science

  4 Copy quote

• [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

  62 Copy quote

• He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Sun Tzu, Musashi Miyamoto, Inazo Nitobe (2016). “The Art of War - a Samurai Master Class”, p.13, Lulu.com

  154 Copy quote

  Show source

• Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, School, Done

  69 Copy quote

• Luck never made a man wise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Luck

  9 Copy quote

• Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

  Dale Carnegie

  Knowledge, Technology, Engineering

  58 Copy quote

• The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

  Gordon Moore

  School, Knowledge, Technology

  "An Interview with Gordon Moore". Ingenuity 5 (2), May 2000.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teacher, Loneliness, Silence

  7 Copy quote

• You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Loneliness, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.173, Courier Corporation

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Meditation is listening to the divine within

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Meditation Practice, Listening

  Edgar Cayce (2010). “Meditation, Prayer & Affirmations”, p.13, ARE Press

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Integrity, Tombstone, Grateful

  10 Copy quote

• When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

  Dan Millman

  Success, Running, Courage

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.85, H J Kramer

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

  William Temple

  Learning, Want

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland. Of popular discontents. An introduction to the history of England. Of gardening. An essay upon the cure of the gout by moxa. Of health and long life. Of heroic virtue. Of poetry. An essay upon ancient and modern learning. Thoughts upon reviewing that essay. Of the excesses of grief. Of the different conditions of life and fortune. Heads of an essay on conversation. Poetry”, p.125

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Success, Wise, Dream

  27 Copy quote

• Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Yoga, Personality

  5 Copy quote

• So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Yoga, People

  7 Copy quote

• I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Believe, Knowledge

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.53, Broadway Books

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Positive, Leadership, Courage

  29 Copy quote