Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 28

• I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Way, Aging

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.55

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• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  Mary Browne

  Motivational, Wise, Wisdom

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• What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Vanity, What If

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

  Euripides

  Wise, Hate, Educational

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• She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

  Horace

  Philosophy, Educational, Helpful

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• The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Spiritual, Sweet

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• When I find myself in times of trouble
  Mother Mary comes to me,
  speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

  John Lennon

  Mother, Trouble, Beatles Love

  Song: Let It Be

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• Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Exercise, Might, Easier

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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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• The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.

  Lowkey

  Average, Allergic, Persons

  Song: Voices of the Voiceless

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• It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Art, Thinking, Jewels

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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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• It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Expectations, Miserable

  'Great Expectations' (1861) ch. 14

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• Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

  Mark Van Doren

  Experience

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• The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Teaching, Should, Paid

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• After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

  Jimmy Carr

  Night, Watches, Gigs

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• All the words of wisdom sound the same.

  Christopher Cross

  Philosophy, Sound

  Song: Words Of Wisdom, Album: Another Page

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• Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Buddhism

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