Wisdom

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Joseph Sobran

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Waylon Jennings

Albert Brooks

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by sixty million for something you're not.

All our souls are written in our eyes.

Edmond Rostand

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all questions.

Earl Gary Stevens

Sophia Bedford-Pierce

There is nothing lost by discarding your faults.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

War makes no sense. Winning does not outweigh the incredible losses.

Unknown

Mother Teresa

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Always serve too much hot fudge on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Judith Olney

To see things in the seed, that is genius

Lao-tzu

Malcolm X

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Brenda Ueland

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, for everyone suffers. To suffering must be adding mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

Dave Matthews

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Gandhi

Isak Dinesen

The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Herbert Gasser

Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Frank Buchman

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

John Wayne

Voltaire

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Sojourner Truth

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers

Denise McCluggage

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

Maria Stewart

Georgia O'Keeffe

Where I was born, and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done and where I have been that should be of interest.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.

Peace Pilgrim

You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Maya Angelou

Malcolm S. Forbes

Ability will never catch up for the demand for it.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Dick Cheney

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Louis Aragon

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Don Herold

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow

John Macnaughton

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Dr. Seuss

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Pythagoras

English Proverb

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Andre Gide

Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint -- and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

 

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