Wise Quotes - Page 35

• While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Views, People, Judging

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• I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Insults You, Dumb

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• Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

  Russell Lynes

  Stupid, People, Would Be

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• There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Suffering, Dignity

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• Never write a letter while you are angry.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Writing, Letters, Angry

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• Genealogists live in the past lane.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Past, Lanes

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• An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

  E. W. Howe

  True Friend, Answers, Honest

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• The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Coins, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.

  Israel Shenker

  Wisdom, Children, Men

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Important, Statistics

  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays Chartism, II

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• Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

  Russell Lynes

  Missing, Village, Idiot

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Ugly, Insult, Being Selfish

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• Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Mind, Insult

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• Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

  Russell Lynes

  Sarcastic, Stupid, Sarcasm

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• Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

  Russell Lynes

  People, Pay, Insult

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• If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.

  Russell Lynes

  Negative, Would Be, Tests

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• Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.

  Manly Hall

  Attitude, Men, Mystical Experiences

  Manly Palmer Hall (1935). “First Principles of Philosophy: The Science of Perfection”

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• Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Wisdom, Clever, Attitude

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• If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Wisdom, Clever, Attitude

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• In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Journey, Hiking, Giving

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

  Sam Keen

  Wisdom, Spring, Creativity

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• When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is sure except death and taxes," or "God willing and the creek don't rise," reminding each other that, notwithstanding the level of planning, we are continually dealing with being surprised. We get startled. We recover. We are disappointed. We adjust. Mostly-with Wisdom intact-we manage.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Wisdom, Levels, Planning

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.69, Ballantine Books

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• Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Together, Disease

  John Bunyan (2014). “'Life and Death of Mr Badman' and 'The Holy War'”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• Innate is a segment of the All-Wise; Educated is an offspring of innate, a servant for its lifetime only. Educated continues with and lasts as long as life exists; Innate is eternal, always was and always will be.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Long, Lasts, Lifetime

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• Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Baby, Thinking

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