Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 36

• Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

  Charles Dickens

  Wisdom, Expectations, Looks

  Great Expectations ch. 40 (1861)

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• Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

  Dan Millman

  Faith, Spiritual, Looks

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.49, H J Kramer

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• Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

  Charlotte Gray

  Garden, Cake, Skills

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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  African American, Matter, Way

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

  Polycarp

  Justice, Greed, Vices

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• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Clever, Hate, Book

  Journal, May 1849

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• ... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

  Charles Dickens

  Loss, Men, Long

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Powerful, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

  Aristotle

  Men, Two, Sick

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• Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.

  Immanuel Kant

  Space, Intuition, Foundation

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• We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

  Plato

  Hands, People, Want

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• We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Believe, Destiny, Waiting

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

  Pema Chodron

  Intelligence, Reason, Goodness

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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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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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

  Pete Seeger

  Change, Spring, Years

  "Pete Seeger: How can I keep from singing?". Interview With Sarah van Gelder, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, African American, Not Afraid

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.11, Ravenio Books

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Selfish, Creativity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• A right delayed is a right denied.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Rights, Rejection

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• A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Writing, Fiction

  A Room of One's Own ch. 1 (1929)

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• The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

  Frederick Douglass

  Life, Being Yourself, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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