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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius


Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius


If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis Carroll


Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lao Tzu


A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Thomas Paine


Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton


Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran


In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir



Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers


Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Joan Rivers


Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

John Muir


Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles


The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs


It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Orison Swett Marden


The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy


Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

William Cowper


The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Khalil Gibran


Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar N. Bradley


A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin


If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau


A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela


Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw


People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski



It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey


It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan Pearsall Smith


Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber


Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson


Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

George Allen, Sr.


A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte


Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

D. H. Lawrence


The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin


You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore


The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac


The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Don Shula


To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton


Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin


The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Colin Powell


If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May


The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake


Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey


Patience is the companion of wisdom.

 

Saint Augustine


Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

 

Alfred Lord Tennyson


To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

 

Margaret Thatcher


Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger


Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

 

Khalil Gibran


The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

 

Ayn Rand


All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

 

Alexis Carrel


The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche


Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

 

Edward Everett Hale


Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt


Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill


Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace


Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell


If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Mason Cooley


Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Sylvia Plath


Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse


Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza


All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Saint Teresa of Avila


If you want to go east, don't go west.

Ramakrishna