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It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Change Open-Mind Open-Heart
New Year's eve is like every other night;
there is no pause in the march of the universe,
no breathless moment of silence among created things
that the passage of another twelve months may be noted;
and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening
that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
- Hamilton Wright Mabie
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Be an Observer of Life.
Gaining wisdom from carefully observing life
is not a substitute for action -
it is a prerequisite for informed action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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