Wisdom Quotes - Page 45

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.