Wise Quotes - Page 36

• What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?

  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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• A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Want, Soil

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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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• Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that it will expire after a few billion more. . . . If we are wise, we will have furnished our new apartments long before that time.

  Robert Shapiro

  Moon, Years, Long

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• The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

  Aristotle

  Men, Tongue, Bitter

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2228, Princeton University Press

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• Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Wisdom, Clever, Lying

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• Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
  Against stupidity the very gods
  Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
  Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
  Wise foundress of the system of the world,
  Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
  Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
  Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
  Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Daughter, Stars

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.435

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• See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Gun, Fire, Judging

  Song: Don Quixote, 1975

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• I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

  Alberto Salazar

  Stress, Heart, Years

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

  Chuck D

  Mother, Father, Military

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• The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

  John Woolman

  Son, Men, Parent

  John Woolman (1847). “A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...”, p.84

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• They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

  Andre Braugher

  Father, Thieves, Feels

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Tired, Mind, Body

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

  Andy Griffith

  Cranky, I Can

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• The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

  Robert Englund

  Horror, Modern, Tricks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and immigrant policy (how we treat people who are already here). What our nation needs is a pro-immigrant policy of low immigration. A pro-immigrant policy of low immigration can reconcile America's traditional welcome for newcomers with the troubling consequences of today's mass immigration. It would enable us to be faithful and wise stewards of America's interests while also showing immigrants the respect they deserve as future Americans.

  Tom Tancredo

  Two, America, Issues

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• Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

  Horace

  Writing, Thinking, Fountainhead

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• Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

  Natalie Merchant

  Philosophy, Eye

  Song: Carnival

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• Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

  Black Francis

  Perfect, Tongue, Adages

  Song: Speedy Marie, Album: Teenager of the Year, 1994

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• Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

  Gerry Rafferty

  Love You, Blow, Advice

  Song: As Wise As A Serpent

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• His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, "Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. "Yeah, I'm a regular marathon alright." He kissed my fingers. "Exactly. A wise man never sprints...in a marathon.

  Colleen Houck

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Writing, Trying, Purpose

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