Wisdom Quotes (3)
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"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?" Kahlil Gibran
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“And reason teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” John Locke
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“There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.” J. Bronowski
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An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me...It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too.” They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied… “The one I feed.”
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“Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.” Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
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“Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children’s pastime like mere highway robbery.” Stephen Crane
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“If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.” Daniel Webster
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“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” Martin Luther King, Jr., “Strength to Love”, 1963
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“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.” Calvin Coolidge
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“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them.” Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)
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“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain
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“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.” Aldous Huxley
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“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” Henry Ford (1863-1947)
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.” Sir Winston Churchill
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“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.” Thomas Jefferson
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“History is written by the victor.” Latin Proverb
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“He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.” Marcus Aurelius
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire (1694-1778)
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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” Albert Camus
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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.” Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), German dramatist
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate
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“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), US Transcendentalist author
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“To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.” Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
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“Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.” Sydney Harris
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“No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.” Ojibway Tribe
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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams
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“The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture aught below, is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.” Bertrand Russell
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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen Keller
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“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance.” Henry Miller (1891-1980), source: The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941
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“Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.” Thomas Jefferson
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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” George Orwell (1903-1950), English novelist, essayist, and critic
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“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” James Madison
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"Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." ~ anonymous
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. Tacitus
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” -Friedrich Nietzche
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"People only see what they are prepared to see.'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson - (1803-1882) American essayist, poet
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russel 1872-1970 British philosopher, historian
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"The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear." Felix Adler
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound." William Shakespeare
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"You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason." - Plotinus
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
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When we share with agenda, we tend to get disappointed if our help is neglected or misunderstood. Therefore share without expecting except for wanting to remove the veil of your ego and reveal your true potential.
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If we come to understand our enemies, they become part of us.
As long as we don't understand our enemies, we are at risk of becoming them. Jeroem
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Judge Not
George Macdonald
The Gospels contain what the Apostles preached -- the Epistles, what they wrote after the preaching. And until we understand the Gospel, the good news about our brother-king -- until we understand Him, until we have His Spirit, promised so freely to them that ask it -- all the Epistles, the words of men who were full of Him, and wrote out of that fullness, who loved Him so utterly that by that very love they were lifted into the air of pure reason and right, and would die for Him, without two thoughts about it, in the very simplicity of no choice -- the Letters, I say, of such men are to us a sealed book. Until we love the Lord so as to do what He tells us, we have no right to an opinion about what one of those men meant; for all they wrote is about things beyond us. The simplest woman who tries not to judge her neighbor, or not to be anxious for the morrow, will better know what is best to know, than the best-read bishop without that one simple outgoing of his highest nature in the effort to do the will of Him who thus spoke. --George Macdonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood
Don't push your way to the front; dont sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside and help others get ahead.
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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is
a light from within."
~Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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"It's about transformation, not information." Gary Amirault
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"I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. While there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene V. Debs
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"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings.
Only one thing endures and that is character." Horace Greeley
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"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.” Viktor Frankl, 1946 "And since Palestine we see how easily we forget both." Emet Tzedakah
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"Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?" The Confessions of St. Augustine Book Four, Chapter VII
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We are in Him and He within us. For in God "we live and move and have our being" -St. Paul
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"It's the impeded stream that sings"-Wendall Berry
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Between the Extremes: "The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away" -Bill W. in a letter, 1959
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"Daddy, I'm always in prayer because part of my brain, through the Holy Spirit, is in constant communication with Heaven [God]. My mouth is for talking to people."The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, by Kevin Malarkey
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Transformed people transform people. The Naked Now by Richard Rohr
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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." - Charles Dickens
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"What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man? It is Love, Love for all humanity." - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Darkness is potential for light. Gary Amirault
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Life is a song and a dance. To dance the Dance of Life one must hear the rythm of the Song of Life. Gary Amirault
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Love, life, light, liberty, song, dance, wisdom, tree, vine, branch river, rock, lamb, truth, the way, the beginning, the end -- everything in life points to Jesus because "from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen." (Romans 11:36) Gary Amirault
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The best things is life aren't things.
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Bright minds often come with dark hearts. Gary Amirault
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"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." - John Steinbeck
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There are some who live for the praise and honor of men; there are others who live for the praise and honor of our heavenly Father and His Son. One is a foolish. Gary Amirault
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Words without wings won't fly. Gary Amirault
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God often hides His greatest gifts in the least attractive vessels. Gary Amirault
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under. Alfred North Whitehead
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The world is perfectly imperfect according to our heavenly Father's plan. Gary Amirault
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In the face of your enemy, oh Jacob/Israel, you will see God. (See the Bible: Jacob meeting Esau. Genesis 25:19-33:20)
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When you humble yourself before your enemy, oh, Jacob/Israel, you will have a Peniel experience, you will see the face of God. Gary Amirault (See the Bible: Jacob meets Esau. Genesis 25:19-33:20.)
The lion and the bear may be stronger but wolf doesn't perform in circuses and in the end lays down with the Lamb. (Isaiah 11:6) Gary Amirault