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Wise Quotes and Sayings90 wise quotes and sayings from men and women throughout the ages... Apply their wisdom for a happier life! Wise Saying about Adversity - You can’t prevent what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond. Wise Quotes about Attitude - Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. - If you can laugh at it, you can live with it. - Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself. - Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. - A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. - “Enough” is not a number—it is a way of thinking, feeling and seeing. - We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. - When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. - Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favourable light at all times, in all circumstances. - He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. - Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures. - Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
- To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done—this is how I desire to waste wisely my days. Wise Quotes about Behaviour - Our beliefs drive our behaviour. - Saying is one thing and doing is another. - All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. - He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. - No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. - Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties. - A man, never brought into contact with minds superior to his own, will probably run one-and-the-same dull round of thought and action to the end of llfe. - What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Wise Quotes about Cause and Effect - It is the means that determine the end. - We inherit the world we build with our thoughts. - Eventually, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. - There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. Wise Quotes about Communication - Differences challenge assumptions. - Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. - Whenever two good people argue over principals, they are both right. Wise Quotes about Community - The light and life that spring up in one soul are to be spread far and wide. - We were not made to live or advance alone. Society is as needful to us as air or food. Wise Saying about Creativity - Creativity is a flower that praise brings to bloom, but discouragement often nips in the bud. Wise Quotes about Decisions - The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late. - It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship. Wise Saying about Foolishness - There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. Wise Saying about Forgiving - Forgiveness is the greatest gift we can give. - Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. Wise Saying about Giving - I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. Wise Quotes about Hate - There is no hate without fear. - Racism is man's gravest threat to man—the maximum hatred for a minimum reason.
- She had some horses she loved. - The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. - Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. - Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them. Wise Quotes about Individuality - Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality. Wise Quotes about Integrity - Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. - A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart. Wise Quotes about Knowledge - Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. - We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. - Every other knowledge is harmful to he who does not have knowledge of goodness. Wise Quotes about Life - You can never plan the future by the past. - It is only through the ending of what was that the new can come into being. - Each being is sacred—meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being. Wise Saying about Lying - The cruellest lies are often told in silence. Wise Quotes about the Mind - Choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head. - In the space age the most important space is between the ears. - So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination… And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. Wise Saying about the News - For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. Wise Quotes about Oneness - Remember that you are all people and all people are you. - Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. - The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. Wise Quotes about Potential - Ask all of yourself. - The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. Wise Quotes about the Self - It's never rude to interrupt your false-self. - The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. - Some people say they haven’t yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. Wise Saying about Service - There are times when the assertion of great principles is the best service a man can render society. Wise Quotes on the State - No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. - Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. - No country can ever hope to rise beyond a vulgar mediocrity where there is not unbounded confidence in what its humanity can do. Wise Quote about Technology - If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. Wise Saying about Truth - The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I'm looking for the truth.” And so it goes away.
Wise Saying about Wealth - What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. Wise Quotes about Wisdom! - After wisdom comes wit. - To dare, is the highest wisdom. - The heart is wiser than the intellect. - Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent. - A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Only action has the power to turn knowledge into wisdom. - Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. - Knowledge is fostered by curiosity; wisdom is fostered by awe. - Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. - To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. - We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. - Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. - The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. - Once you engage your own inner wisdom, you can change or improve your habits of thought, your emotions, and your behaviours… and create a more positive and joyful life experience right away. This process, when engaged in regularly, heals both your present and your future. It also enables you to live a life full of joy, meaning, and purpose—right here, right now. ~ End of Wise Quotes and Sayings~ Go from Wise Quotes and Sayings to Philosophy Happiness: Quotes and Quotations Go from Wise Quotes and Sayings to Yummy Quotes Home |
