Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Nhat Hanh

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Nhat Hanh

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.

Nhat Hanh

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.

Ken Blanchard

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

Omar N. Bradley

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Sharif

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Oprah Winfrey

You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

Olivia Newton-John

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

Olivia Newton-John

I live my life in gratitude.

Oliver Goldsmith

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Oliver Goldsmith

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

Oliver Goldsmith

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

Marcus Terentius Varro

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is participation in power.

Kenny Rogers

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Smith

Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind.

Kenny Smith

People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.

Mark Twain

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Mark Twain

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Mark Twain

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Larry Wall

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

Lajos Kossuth

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

Paul Brunton

The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.

Oscar Wilde

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Lucretius

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Louis Kronenberger

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

Mark Twain

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.