Wisdom Quotes - Page 8

• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.60, Penguin

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  Victor Hugo

  Being Free, Poverty, Endure

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• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Lying, Teaching

  "Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬". Book by Smith Dent, p. 309, March 1945.

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• The root of suffering is attachment

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Attachment

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• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Path for Greatness : Work as Spiritual Service". Book by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51, 2000.

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• The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

  Isaac Newton

  Positive, Art, Enemy

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• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

  Voltaire

  Clever, Men, Asking Questions

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Emo

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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• If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Wise Words

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  If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

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• A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  Solomon

  Inspirational, Kings, Kindness

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• What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

  Chanakya

  Men, Mirrors, Use

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• When people show you who they are ... believe them!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, Truth

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Journey

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2014

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• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Passion, Way, Bears

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

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• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Knowledge, Too Much Information

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Encouraging, Thankful, Encouragement

  Rhonda Byrne (2006). “The Secret”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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