Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 20

• A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

  Thomas Hood

  Wisdom, Thinking, Moments

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.63

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• Right now, in this moment, your soul has again created opportunity for you to be, do, and have what it takes to know Who You Really Are. Your soul has brought you to the words you are reading right now-as it has brought you to words of wisdom and truth before. What will you do now? What will you choose to be? Your soul waits, and watches with interest, as it has many times before.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Reading

  "The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 2005.

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• Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• There are many possibilities that people can choose from. There are bad and there are good ones. So, look carefully to choose for yourself the noble path... ... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil! Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  People, Evil, Advice

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• I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Snakes, Firsts

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• .. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

  Plato

  Greatness, Opposites, Discipline

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Substance, Destruction

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• There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Ethics

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

  Mark Epstein

  Teacher, Buddhist, Space

  Mark Epstein (2013). “Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness”, p.21, Harmony

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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• Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

  Angela Davis

  African American, Existence, Humans

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• Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Desire, Use, Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Love, Life, Wisdom

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• I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point

  Harry S. Truman

  Smart, Proud, Enough

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• Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

  Abraham Lincoln

  Nature, Action, Changed

  Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

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• No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Directors, Benefits, Stage

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• ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Lying, Differentiation, Substance

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• Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

  Gerald Brenan

  Business, Thinking, Important

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• If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Waste, Fruit, Want

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

  Socrates

  War, Fighting, Self

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• Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Study, Teach

  Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1876). “The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Containing the Revelations”, p.290

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• ..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. .... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses.

  David Hume

  Memories, Past, Ignorant

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• The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

  David Hume

  Past, Kind, Argument

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.110, 谷月社

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• ...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

  Aristotle

  Principles, Movement, Preoccupation

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• ... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

  Aristotle

  Deals, Subjects, Property

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