Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 23

• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Differences, Pieces, Matter

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

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• The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Atheism, Action

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.

  Brian Tracy

  Business, Two, Choices

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• When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Honor, Want, Firsts

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• The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

  Jagadish Chandra Bose

  Truth, Law, Mind

  "Oriental Philosophy". Book by Ted Gambordella, 2008.

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• There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Money, Life And Love

  Andrew Carnegie (1968). “Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie”

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• You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All". Book by Yogi Berra, 2003.

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• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  Plato

  Mean, Knowing, Assuming

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• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Mistake

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Educational, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Business, Knowing, Important

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• Reality is where your consciousness is located

  Nevill Drury

  Reality, Consciousness

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• It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

  Peter Senge

  Water, Tree, Growth

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.10, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Humanity, Earth, Injured

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• Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

  Charles Dickens

  Animal, Savages, Lions

  Charles Dickens (1843). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.193

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• For me the beginning of all true progress in the woman question lies in women's right to vote...The strong the emphasis on the difference between the sexes, the clearer the need for the specific representation of women.

  Hedwig Dohm

  Strong, Sex, Lying

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• Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

  Italo Calvino

  Truth, Writing, Mean

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.

  Kenny Smith

  Wise, Philosophy, Keys

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• How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been agitated in England, and women in this colony read, watch, and reflect...Why should not New Zealand also lead?...Why has a woman to power to vote, no right to vote, when she happens to possess all the requisites which legally qualify a man for that right?

  Mary Ann Muller

  Men, Long, People

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• True depth of understanding is wide and steady,
  Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,
  Words of wisdom are precise and clear

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Understanding, Lazy

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• For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Book, Men, Light

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• The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Truth, Moon, Looks

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• ...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?

  John Stuart Mill

  Justice, Principles, Taxation

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P., on the Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise: Spoken in the House of Commons, May 20th, 1867”, p.5

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