Words of Wisdom
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“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E.E. Cummings
“Egotism is not a good quality. It’s not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn’t be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn’t be tolerated in a movie director.” – John Milius
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
– Joseph Campbell
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
– Bill Cosby
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”
– Goethe
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.” – Rene Descartes
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” – Nicholas Murray Butler
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one.” – Charles de Gaulle
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
“All the while, the glorious sun pours immaculate free energy down upon us, more than we will ever need. Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations […]
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Robert Frost
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this […]
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” – Louis Pasteur
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the […]
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” — Isaac Asimov
“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly […]