Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 31

• Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Success, Men, And Love

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• She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

  Horace

  Philosophy, Educational, Helpful

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• ...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Men, Ideas, Imagination

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• I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Unity, Genuine

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• It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

  Anne Frank

  Teenager, Single Mom, Inspiration

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• All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

  Stanley Crouch

  African American, Stories, Made

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• Listen to what your higher wisdom has to say about how you can deepen your participation in the global shift-through personal healing, changing your worldview, or finding ways to help others and the environment. This is how you can both heal yourself and help humanity. At their deepest level, the two are joined and ready to awaken to a new world.

  Edmund Bourne

  Healing, Helping Others, Two

  Edmund Bourne (2009). “Global Shift: How A New Worldview Is Transforming Humanity”, p.325, New Harbinger Publications

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• I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

  Byron Katie

  Wise, Teacher, People

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• A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter of choice any more than tithing is a choice, any more than sacrament meeting is a choice, any more than the Word of Wisdom is a choice. Of course, we have our free agency, and the Lord has given us choices. We can do as we please. We can go on a mission or we can remain home. But every normal young man is as much obligated to go on a mission as he is to pay his tithing, attend his meetings, keep the Sabbath day holy, and keep his life spotless and clean.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Home, Men, Agency

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• ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Political, Should

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

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• The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

  Plato

  Reality, Political, World

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

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• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Real, Twilight

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• It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

  Aristotle

  Principles, Causes, Kind

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• The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Enemy, Kind, Like You

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.35, Everyman's Library

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• Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

  Gottfried Leibniz

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• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

  Euripides

  Wise, Hate, Educational

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Business, Mistake

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

  Louise Otto-Peters

  Inspirational, Women, Thinking

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• If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

  Toshiko Kishida

  Women, Government, Stronger

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• The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

  Charles Dickens

  Parent, Religion, Indifferent

  Charles Dickens (1852). “Bleak House”, p.101

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• The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Wealth

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• We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.

  Harriet Taylor Mill

  Women, Rights, History

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  Mary Browne

  Motivational, Wise, Wisdom

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• You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Teacher, People, Justice

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