Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 27

• And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Substance, Compounds

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• Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Atoms, Elements, Shapes

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Trying, May, Failing

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• We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

  Carlos Castaneda

  Feelings, Awareness

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• Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

  Katherine Dunham

  Thinking, Forever, African American

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• Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

  Booker T. Washington

  African American, Chance, Remember

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• Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all things, all things are its manifestation! Seek to be One with the Divine Sun! Hold your thought on uniting the Light with your human body. Light is the Source of all the life; for without the Great Light nothing can ever exist! Know, Light is the basis of all formed matter. Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Men, Space, Light

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• He who knows his soul knows this truth:
  " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature.
  I am the stars,
  I am the waves,
  I am the Life of all,
  I am the laughter within all hearts,
  I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul.
  I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. "

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Stars, Laughter, Flower

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• Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape can often be discerned by following the path projected by a pointing finger. "Them that have ears, let them hear," said Jesus; whoever "hears" the inner import of words will be able to "see" their inward meaning.

  Robert Svoboda

  Jesus, Often Is, Inward

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• When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wise, Lying, Tired

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• The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Heart, Disease

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• If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

  Vusi Mahlasela

  Blow, Wind, Squash

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• It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.

  Charles Dickens

  Struggle, Men, Discovery

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

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• Raise the roof, that I might see the stars
  To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are
  Please, I need proof

  Barry Privett

  Stars, Needs, Might

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• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wisdom, People, Ministry

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• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  Ralph Ellison

  Relationship, Cousin, People

  Time Magazine, March 27, 1964.

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• Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Should

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• ...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Thinking, Government

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• It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Get Well, Flower, Recovery

  Charles Dickens (1859). “Dombey and Son”, p.142

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• Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Buddhist, Truth

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• Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

  Robert Moss

  Running, Determination, Intuition

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.122, New World Library

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• The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Atheism, World, Flux

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• I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Unity, Genuine

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• The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

  Plato

  Reality, Political, World

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Political, Should

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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