Words Of Wisdom famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
-- Angela Davis -
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 -
Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof
-- Barry Privett -
"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said."
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.
-- Brian Weiss -
Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
-- Carlos Castaneda -
There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment
-- Carlos Castaneda -
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 -
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt -
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.
-- Catherine the Great -
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
-- Charles Dickens -
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
-- Charles Dickens -
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
-- Charles Dickens -
"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."
-- Charles Dickens -
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
-- Charles Dickens -
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
-- Charles Dickens -
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
-- Charles Dickens -
Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
-- Charles Dickens -
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
-- Charles Dickens -
It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!
-- Charles Dickens -
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
-- Charles Dickens -
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
-- Charles Dickens -
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
-- Charles Dickens -
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
-- Charles Dickens -
"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
-- Charles Dickens -
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
-- Charles Dickens -
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
-- Charles Dickens -
The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
-- Chidananda Saraswati -
All the words of wisdom sound the same.
-- Christopher Cross -
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
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 -
The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."
-- David Shore -
Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.
-- Dorotheus of Gaza -
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
-- Emily Dickinson -
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.
-- Gangaji -
Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.
-- Gerald Brenan -
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 -
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.
-- Harold B. Lee -
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
-- Hildegard of Bingen -
...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.
-- Huangbo Xiyun -
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 -
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.
-- Italo Calvino -
The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth
-- Jagadish Chandra Bose -
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.
-- James Clerk Maxwell -
If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
-- Jesse Jackson -
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
-- Jimmy Carr -
Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
-- John Andreas Widtsoe -
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.
-- Kenny Smith -
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.
-- Kenny Smith -
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
-- Khalil Gibran -
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.
-- Lee Smolin -
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.
-- Lee Smolin -
But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.
-- Lee Smolin -
The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.
-- Lee Smolin -
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 -
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 -
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah....
-- Louis Armstrong -
The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.
-- Lowkey -
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
-- Marcus Garvey -
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
-- Marcus Garvey -
Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
-- Mark Van Doren -
A right delayed is a right denied.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
-- Maya Angelou -
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
-- Maya Angelou -
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
-- Michael Faraday -
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?
-- Michael Faraday -
Reality is where your consciousness is located
-- Nevill Drury -
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
-- Nikki Giovanni -
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 -
The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.
-- Oscar Arias -
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
-- Pema Chodron -
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 -
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 -
'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'
-- Plato -
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with
-- Plato -
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
-- Plato -
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
-- Plato -
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
-- Plato
