Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 34

• Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Essence, Substance

  28 Copy quote

• My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

  Julie Andrews

  Book, Three, World

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?

  Samuel Noah Kramer

  Teach, Reserved, Ifs

  12 Copy quote

• To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Accomplishment, Secret

  63 Copy quote

• It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

  Lee Smolin

  Independent, Lasts, Speak

  "The Life of the Cosmos". Book by Lee Smolin, January 1, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Ignorance, Simple

  52 Copy quote

• All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Acceptance, Battle, Research

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My children will not remember the words of wisdom I’ve passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you’ve given.  However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you’ve lived before them.

  Dorothy Kelley Patterson

  Children, Heart, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Food, Answers

  5 Copy quote

• The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Problem, Solutions

  55 Copy quote

• We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Dying

  203 Copy quote

• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

  Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

  36 Copy quote

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  39 Copy quote

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

  422 Copy quote

  Show source

• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

  294 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

  Plato

  Confused, Twilight, Eye

  14 Copy quote

• I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.

  Silas House

  Hands, Tree, Silence

  Silas House (2002). “A Parchment of Leaves: A Novel”, Algonquin Books

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

  Nikki Giovanni

  African American, Want, Speak

  Nikki Giovanni, “A Poem Of Friendship”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  African American, Be Careful, Careful

  Talk with graduates at Buena Vista University Graduation, 1995.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

  Robert South

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.318

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Teenager, Past

  7 Copy quote

• If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Crazy

  74 Copy quote