Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Patience is the companion of wisdom.[Saint Augustine] Quote:It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it;[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.[Leo Gallagher] Quote:If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.[Isaac Disraeli] Quote:Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?[Philip Hamerton] Quote:A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.[Robert Frost] Quote:Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.[Aristotle] Quote:It is most unwise for people in love to marry.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.[Jimi Hendrix] Quote:For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The doors of wisdom are never shut.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.[Mark Twain] Quote:What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.[Saint Augustine] Quote:A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.[George Washington] Quote:My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.[George Washington] Quote:You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.[Yogi Berra] Quote:I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question.[Yogi Berra] Quote:No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.[Francis Bacon] Quote:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.[Confucius] Quote:Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.[Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Quote:Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.[Socrates] Quote:We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.[Socrates] Quote:The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.[Socrates] Quote:There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:It is impossible to love and to be wise.[Francis Bacon] Quote:If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.[Woody Allen] Quote:For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes] Quote:Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:A loving heart is the truest wisdom.[Charles Dickens] Quote:Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:To be wise and love exceeds man's might.[William Shakespeare] Quote:A prudent question is one half of wisdom.[Francis Bacon] Quote:A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.[Francis Bacon] Quote:Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Life is a festival only to the wise.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.[Garrison Keillor] Quote:But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty...this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.[Albert Einstein] Quote:You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.[Sydney Smith] Quote:You must be the change you wish to see in the world.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.[Erica Jong] Quote:I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.[Thomas Paine] Quote:I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.[Daniel Webster] Quote:I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.[Mother Teresa] Quote:What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:The wise speak only of what they know.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.[William Shakespeare] Quote:I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.[Albert Einstein] Quote:One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.[Jack Handey] Quote:Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:...a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely.[J.D. Anderson] Quote:How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.[Alexander Pope] Quote:Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. [Cato the Elder] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. [Amos Bronson Alcott] Quote:The wisest mind has something yet to learn. [George Santayana] Quote:The wisest mind has something yet to learn. [George Santayana] Quote:Write a wise saying and your name will live forever [Anonymous] Quote:Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. [Tom Lehrer] Quote:A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. [Colette] Quote:When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. [Quintilian] Quote:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. [Epictetus] Quote:Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. [Albert Einstein] Quote:It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. [Euripides] Quote:The wisest men follow their own direction. [Euripides] Quote:[Water is] the only drink for a wise man. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. [Horace] Quote:Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:The wise man carries his possessions within him. [Bias] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote: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 Russell] Quote:Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote: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 Russell] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. [John Adams] Definitions of: wisDefinition: Certainly; really; indeed. |
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