Wise Man Once Said Quotes - Page 8

• How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Life Lesson, Taken

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

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• Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

  Philo

  Hope, Wisdom, Giving

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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Education, Teacher

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• Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Rain, Clouds

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.229, Shambhala Publications

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• There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

  Plato

  Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom, Meat

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.38, Penguin

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• A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

  Plutarch

  Thankful, Dog, Horse

  "Plutarch's Lives".

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• Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

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• You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the right person can heal them. I remember a wise man once said to me that everyone deserves to be loved. Even you. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wise, Men, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.757, St. Martin's Press

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• We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

  Archilochus

  Wisdom, Fall, Warrior

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• I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

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  Ram Dass

  Wisdom, Work, Believe In Yourself

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• Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

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  Ram Dass

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Believe, Principles

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• Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Mean, Loss

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• Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

  Roger Bacon

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

  Rumi

  Morning, Love Is, Light

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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 you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Knowledge, Eye

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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  Sleep is the best meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

  Laozi

  Wisdom, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Fighting, Desire

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

  Sophocles

  Hype, Unjust, Fraud

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