THE
WISDOM OF THE WORLD
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"Understanding is the fruit of looking deeply ... This present moment
contains the past and the future. The secret of transformation ... lies
in
our handling of this very moment."
Hanh, Thich Nhat (Vietnamese
Zen Buddhist monk, teacher and author)
* “Walk slowly. Don't rush. Each step
brings you to the best moment of your life, the present moment.”
Hanh,
Thich Nhat
*
"When we look deep into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine,
minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without
clouds there could be no rain, and there would be no flowers."
Hanh, Thich Nhat
* "Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals
of human
relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that people, do
not
live by bread alone."
Hannah, John A.
* "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think"
Hansberry, Lorraine
*
"The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest people."
(*)
Hare, Julius, C.
* “Books give not wisdom where not was before. But where some is there
reading makes more.”
Hardwick, Elizabeth
*
"It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved
to
be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches
on a
petrol dump."
Lord Harlech
* "Business has become, in this last half century, the most powerful
institution on the planet. The dominant institution in any society needs
to
take responsibility for the whole ..."
Harman, Willis (Global Mind Change)
* "Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies
have
come about not from dictates of government and the results of battles
but
through vast numbers of people changing their minds -- sometimes only
a
little bit."
Harman, Willis (Global Mind Change.)
* "We are alienated from nature .... We are alienated from our work,
since
that has in so many cases become devoid of meaning. We are alienated from
each other ... And, being deeply confused about our own being, we are
alienated from ourselves."
Harman, Willis and Hormann, John
* "When historians look back on the 20th century they will say that
the
most significant change was the change of the mind, a quiet, but pervasive
change of mind."
Harman, Willis
* "There are only two worries in this world: The worry that you can
resolve
-- so do something about it!
The worry that you can't resolve -- so forget about it."
Harper, Mike
* “A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; they
are those who are prematurely disappointed in the future.”
Harri, Sydney J.
*
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past;
they
are ones who are prematurely disappointed in the future."
Harris, Sydney J. (American newspaper columnist 1917-1986)
"It
is surprising how many people go through life without ever
recognising that their feelings toward other people are largely determined
by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within
yourself, you can not be comfortable with others."
Harris, Sydney J.
* "Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play
well;
but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements
of
playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labour into our
leisure."
Harris, Sydney J.
* “men may be divided almost any way we please, but I have found the most useful distinction to be made between those who devote their lives to conjugating the verb ‘to be’ and those who spend their lives conjugating the verb ‘to have’.
Harris,
Sydney J.
* "Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing
themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues.
Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to
ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
Harris, Sydney J.
*
“Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied
by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce
a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.”
Harris, Sydney J.
* "Regret for the things we did
can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we
did not do that is inconsolable."
Harris, Sydney J.
* "The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light
at the
end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light and the next
tunnel."
Harris, Sydney J.
(And: "Those of you who are happiest are those who are able to enjoy
life
in tunnels, even when there is little or no light' bl)
* "The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like
men, but
that men will begin to think like machines."
Harris, Sydney J.
* "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
Harris, Sydney J.
* “Our awesome
responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to
create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends
on the nobility of our imaginings.”
Harrison,
Barbara Grizzuti
*
"It is never safe to look into the future with the eyes of fear."
Harrison, E.H.
* "The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are
the most
important part of happiness. We need to be careful, upon achieving
happiness, not to lose the virtues which have produced it."
Harrison, Harry.
* "Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life."
Hart, Josephine
* "If, of all words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, 'It might have been',
More sad are these we daily see:
'It is, but hadn't ought to be!' "
Harte, Bret
* “The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little
acts of compassion. You must achieve as if your every act, even the smallest,
impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.”
Hartmann, Thom
* “Do you commit the error, common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.”
Hartog, Jan de
*
"For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the
season of the harvest."
Hasidic saying
* "The person who is too old to learn was probably always too old
to learn."(*)
Haskins, Henry S.
* "Don't be afraid that your life will end; be afraid that it will
never
begin."
Hassen, Grace
* “Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of
our increasing social intelligence.”
Hastie, William
*
"Strategy is better than strength"
Hausa proverb
* "Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between
phenomena."
Havel, Vaclav
("& wisdom is to know what can be usefully done with that knowledge."
bl)
* "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world; it is a dimension of
the
soul, and it's not essentially dependent on some particular observation
of
the world or estimate of the situation. It is the ability to work for
something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to
succeed."
Havel, Vaclav
* "Hope is not a feeling of certainty, that everything ends well.
Hope is
just a feeling that life and work have meaning, regardless of how they
turn
out."
Havel, Vaclav
* "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the
human
heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human
responsibility. Without a global resolution in human consciousness nothing
will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the
catastrophe toward which this world is headed - be it ecological, social,
demographic, or general breakdown of civilization - will be inevitable."
Havel, Vaclav
* "Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom
and
under what circumstances we say it."
Havel, Vaclav
* "We live in a post modern world where nearly everything is possible
and
nothing is certain."
Havel, Vaclav
* “All wisdom is not taught in your school.”
Hawaiian proverb
*
"Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something.
'I
cannot', never accomplished anything; 'I will try', has wrought wonders."
Hawes, Joel
* “Failure can be divided into those who thought and never did, and those
who did and never thought”
Hawkins, David E. (‘The Bending Moment’ 2005, p262)
*
"In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery
of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by
the uncertainty principle."
Hawking, Stephen (A Brief History of Time, 1988)
* "The behaviour of the universe on a very large scale seems to be
simple and not chaotic."
Hawking, Stephen
* "Happiness is as a butterfly, which when pursued is always just
beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight
upon you."
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
* "Happiness is feeling good about yourself."
Hay, Louise
* "Outside the sphere of individual responsibility there is neither
goodness or badness .... Only where we ourselves are responsible for our
own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value."
Hayer, Friedrich, A. (The Road to Serfdom)
* " Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it
isn't
original sin. They are born with the tragedy that they have to grow up
...
a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."
Hayes, Helen
* “Effective managers live in the present – but concentrate on the future.”
Hayes, James L.
*
"Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting
contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach
to
the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two,
without a possibility of it ever being otherwise."
Hazlitt, William
* "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure
much."
Hazlitt, William
* "The Human Race is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for they
are
the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are,
and what they might have been."(*)
Hazlitt, William
* "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is
the love
of ourselves."
Hazlitt, William
* “The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
Hazlitt, William
*
"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations
meet with give us courage to proceed, or dampen our efforts."
Hazlitt, William
* "All of us must rid ourselves of the illusion that we can buy our
way out
of the problems of today by mortgaging the future."
Heath, Edward (see Atlee, Clement)
* “Those who do not teach their children a trade teach them to be robbers.” (*)
Hebrew proverb
* "It is better to know nothing than to learn nothing."
Hebrew proverb
*
"One hour of learning and good works in this world is better than
all the joys of the hereafter."
Hebrew proverb
* "The wise know the value of riches, but the rich do not know the
pleasure of wisdom."
Hebrew proverb
* “When the shepherd is angry with his sheep he sends them a blind guide.”
Hebrew proverb
* "If you load responsibility on a person unworthy of it they will
always
betray themselves."
Heckscher, August
* "Education is the art of making me ethical."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
* "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without
passion."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
* "What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments
have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they
might have drawn from it."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
* "Keep in mind that Tao means how: how things happen. Learn to become
more
conscious of what is actually happening."
Heider, John (The Tao of Leadership.)
* "As individuals we move into the future on the mingled accident
and
design of our lives."
Heilbroner, Robert L.
* "Here lies extinguished in his prime,
A victim of modernity:
But yesterday he hadn't time --
And now he has eternity."
Hein, Piet
* “When you feel sometimes how slowly you climb. It’s well to remember
that Things Take Time.”
Hein, Piet
*
"Thought precedes action as lightening does thunder."
Heine, Heinrich
* " A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future."
Heinlein, Robert A.
* "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
Hellman, Lillian
* "If you understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced
in
it. People in disguise speak freely."
Helps, Sir Arthur
* "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never
thrown away."
Helps, Sir Arthur
* "An important personal quality for a teacher is that they care
about
humanity, If they don't, they are taking their pay illegally."
Helwick, Edward C.
* “Never mistake motion for action.”
Hemingway, Ernest
* "There are some things which cannot
be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have,
must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
They are the very simplest things,
and because it takes a person's life to know them,
the little new that each person gets from life
is very costly and the only heritage they have to leave."(*)
Hemingway, Ernest
* "We can't ever go back to old things or try and get the 'old kick'
out of
something or find things the way we remembered them. We have them as we
remember them and they are fine and wonderful and we have to go on and
have
other things because the old things are nowhere except in our minds now."
Hemingway, Ernest (to Bill Horne, Paris 1923)
* “To me, this is the essence of knowledge sharing. It’s all about contribution,
it’s all about the respect for others’ opinions and views; it’s all about
a good facilitation and synthesis process; it’s all about the distribution
of lessons learned from this knowledge process, and it’s all about access
to packaged knowledge and key insights that become the starting points
for individual learning.”
Hiebeler, Bob
* “ Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Heinlein, Robert
*
"The busy world sometimes forgets that we need sympathy in our happiness
as well as in our sorrow."
Henderson, C. Hanford
* "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade
you do not
expect to sit."
Henderson, Nelson
* “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
Hendrix, Jimi
* “Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.”
Hennessy, Edward
*
"The future arrives of its own accord, progress does not."
Henningsen, Paul, (Danish Designer and Social Critic)
* "The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain."
Henry, Matthew
* "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me
liberty,
or give me death."
Henry, Patrick
* "What is research, but a blind date with knowledge?"
Henry, Will
* "One doth but breakfast here, another dines, those that liveth
longest
doth but sup; we must all go to bed in another world."
Henshaw, Joseph
* “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
Hepburn, Audrey
*
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only
with
what you are expecting to give."
Hepburn, Katharine
* "Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense
grassroots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to
take
our responsibility."
Hepburn, Katharine
* “Abundance of knowledge does not teach a person to be wise … People
who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.”
Heraclitus (c540-480BC)
*
"All things are in a state of flux."
Heraclitus
* “Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.”
Heraclitus
* “Much learning does not teach understanding.”
Heraclitus (or judgement and judgement is the best use of knowledge … bl)
"Out
of life, comes death.
and out of death, life,
Out of the young, the old,
and out of the old, the young,
Out of waking, sleep,
and out of sleep, waking,
The stream of creation and dissolution never stops."
Heraclitus
* "There is nothing permanent except change." ("Everything
flows and
nothing stays.")
Heraclitus
* "You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are
continually flowing on."
Heraclitus
* "People must not do things for fun. We are not hear for fun. There
is no
reference to fun in any Act of Parliament."
Herbert, Sir A.P.
* " For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse
is
lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost."
Herbert, George
* "The love of learning and the love of money rarely meet."
Herbert, George
* "This is the worst pain a person can suffer: to have insight into
much
and power over nothing."
Herodotus
* "Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use."
Herodotus
*“The brighter you are, the more your have to learn.”
Herold, Don
* "Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves
to get
it."
Herold, Don
* "To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant
or
trifling. From the least of Nature's works they may learn the greatest
lessons."
Herschel, Sir John
* "It is easier to exemplify values than teach them."
Hebburgh, Theodore M.
*
"Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. One can find it, live
it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate
and teach it."(*)
Hesse, Hermann
(1877-1962,
Siddartha )
*
"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is
why so
many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them
for
reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."
Hesse, Hermann
* “Leadership is basically a matter of how to be, not how to do it. Leaders
need to lead by example, with clear, consistent messages, with values
that are ‘moral compasses’ and a sesnse of ethics that works full time.”
Hesselbein, Frances
*
"Foundation Stones
In building a firm foundation for Success, here are a few stones to
remember:
1. The wisdom of preparation.
2. The value of confidence.
3. The worth of honesty.
4. The privilege of working.
5. The discipline of struggle.
6. The magnetism of character.
7. The radiance of health.
8. The forcefulness of simplicity.
9. The winsomeness of courtesy.
10. The attractiveness of modesty.
11. The inspiration of cleanliness.
12. The satisfaction of serving.
13. The power of suggestion.
14. The buoyancy of enthusiasm.
15. The advantage of initiative
16. The virtue of patience.
17. The rewards of co-operation.
18. The fruitfulness of perseverance.
19. The sportsmanship of losing.
20. The joy of winning."
Hester, Rollo C.
* "Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtly
be
seen to be done."
Hewart, Gordon
* “All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of possibilities, and
not on certainties.”
Hewlett, William Reddington
*
"We ought always to deal justly not only with those who are just
to us,
but likewise to those who endeavour to injure us; and this, for fear lest
by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice."
Hierocles
*” Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.”
Hightower, Cullen
* “Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.”
Hildebrand, Kenneth
* “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
Hillary, Sir Edmund
*
"If I am not for myself who is for me; and being for my own self
what am I? If not now when?"
Hillel 'The Elder' (60BC -AD)
* “One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably
the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.”
Hillesum, Etty (1914-1943, Dutch diarist)
*
"To generate thought is to create life, liveliness, community. What's
important is how the generative power of our thought makes our life vivid
and burns out the dead brush, dead habits, dead institutions."
Hillman, James
* "Talking to children and being 'helped' by them is perhaps the
most
important work that we, the adults, may do in our lives, for all that
we
make or do in our working weekdays may well be scrap metal or scrap paper
in ten years, but our sons and daughters are the future of the world."
Hills, Laurence D., (President of the Henry Doubleday Research Association,
1989.)
* "Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached
the
shore."
Hindu Proverb
* "They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing."
Hindu Proverb
* "Like the bee gathering honey from different flowers, the wise
person
accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in
all
religions."
Hinduism (Srimad Bhagavatam)
* "One should not behave toward others in a way which is disagreeable
to
oneself. This is the essence of morality. All other activities are due
to
selfish desire."
Hinduism, Mahabharata
* "If we want more brotherhood and goodwill, more intelligence, more
clear
thinking, more honesty and sincerity, more tolerance and human
understanding we must concentrate upon cultivating these qualities within
ourselves. There is a natural progression in social advancement from the
individual spirit to the family, to the community, to the nation and to
the
world at large. The line of progress can move in no other direction. There
is no substitute for personal integrity."
Hintz, Howard W.
* "True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive
with
robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far
before it. It is up with its age, and ahead of it just so far as to be
able
to lead its march. It cannot slumber, for activity is a necessity of its
existence. It is no reservoir, but a fountain."
Hitchcock, Roswell D.
* "For the foresight of things to come, which is providence, belongs
only
to those by whose will they are to come. For those only, and
supernaturally, proceeds prophecy. The best prophet naturally is the best
guesser, they that are most versed and studied in the matters they guess
at; for they hath the most signs to guess by."(*)
Hobbes, Thomas. (1588-1679,The Leviathan 1651.)
*
“Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience
of time past.”
Hobbes, Thomas
*
" Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them, but
they are
the money of fools."
Hobbes, Thomas
* “It is easier to find a score of people wise enough to discover the
truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to
stand up for it.”
Hodge A.A.
*
" A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age
of 20
would make a collection of asinine pronouncements."
Hoffer, Eric
* "If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity,
it
must know how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes,
attitudes, values and fantasies on everyday life."
Hoffer, Eric
* "In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the
future, while
the learned usually find themselves beautifully equipped to live in a
world that no
longer exists."
Hoffer, Eric
* "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching
us that
they have no time left to learn."
Hoffer, Eric
* "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the book
who kicks
them."
Hoffer, Eric
* "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
Hoffer, Eric
* "A man and a woman travelled the world in search of happiness.
They
finally discovered that true happiness has no destination; rather, it
is a
way of travelling."
Holden, Robert
* "Be honest -- have you ever seen a cynical baby?
Have you ever stared into a cot, held a baby's hand and whispered lovingly,
' You're so sweet and cynical'? No? There are no cynical babies!
You are not born cynical. You do not just become cynical. You choose
cynicism. You use cynicism to protect and defend against getting hurt
ever
again. You will get hurt, however, because you can't be cynical and happy."
Holden, Robert
* "Blessed are they who can smile at themselves, for they will never
cease
to be amused."
Holden, Robert
* "Happiness happens when you let it."
Holden, Robert
* "Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy you attract
great
things into your life. Your decision to be happy helps you to radiate
and
glow. You light up the world when you are happy."
Holden, Robert
* "Happiness is innate. It is natural. It is your core. By contrast,
unhappiness is learned. It is acquired. it is an outer skin you can grow
out of."
Holden, Robert
* "Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you."
Holden, Robert
* "Happiness is not something you have in your hands or your pockets;
happiness is something you carry in your heart."
Holden, Robert
* "It is never too late to enjoy the moment."
Holden, Robert
(But: "It is always too late to enjoy the moment, if you haven't
enjoyed
it." bl)
* "Life is all about being first!
If you want love, be loving first;
if you want trust, be trusting first;
if you want forgiveness, be forgiving first;
if you want honesty, be honest first;
if you want courage, be courageous first;
if you want inspiration, be a Light first!"
Holden, Robert
* "Memo to all managers: catch people enjoying their work.
A happy team will be more inspired, dedicated, lively, energetic, creative,
friendly and stress-proofed than any miserable bunch, no matter how
talented."
Holden, Robert
* "Nothing in the world can make you happy;
everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
Nothing in the world can make you sad;
everything in the world can encourage you to be sad."
Holden, Robert
* "Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have
to be
willing to give up all hope of a better past."
Holden, Robert
* "The gift of happiness is wrapped in your heart, not in the world
outside. Your happiness will never be mailed to you, and it can never
get
lost in the post! In truth, your happiness has already been delivered,
and
it is sitting in your inner mail box - your heart -- waiting to be opened."
Holden, Robert
* "The no.1 Happiness Principle
Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy with what
you do;
Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy with what
you have;
Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy with what
you are;
Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy with what
you are with."
Holden, Robert
* "The only difference between 'happiness is no where' and 'happiness
is
now here' is not the event, but how you see the event. Perception is the
key."
Holden, Robert
* "The pursuit of happiness must always fail because it is based
on a lie
-- happiness is not outside you. Until you change your belief that
happiness is somewhere else, you will never quite make it!"
Holden, Robert
* "Today is a good day for forgiveness.
Mind you forgiveness is not for everyone.
It is only for those who would like to experience peace, love, joy, bliss,
healing, freedom, total salvation and things like that."
Holden, Robert
* "You who chase happiness so incessantly give up the chase. Stop
awhile,
and let happiness chase after you."
Holden, Robert
* "You will never become happy - you can only be happy."
Holden, Robert
* “Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”
Holland, Josiah Gilbert
*
"One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness."
Holler, William E.
* "What the future holds for us, depends on what we hold for the
future.
Hard working today's make high-winning tomorrow's."
Holler, William E.
* "The future always holds something for the people who keep their
faith in
it."
Hollis, H.L.
* "There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness
to
accept the responsibilities of being free individuals. Payment of this
price is a personal matter for each of us. It is not something we can
get
others to pay for us. To let others carry the responsibilities of freedom
and the work and worry that accompany them -- while we share only in the
benefits -- may be a very human impulse, but it is likely to be fatal."
Holman, Eugene
* "A happy life is made up of little things in which smiles and small
favours are given habitually. A gift sent, a letter written, a call made,
a
recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent,
a
check sent -- things which are done without hesitation. Kindness isn't
sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others,
sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly
act,
forgetfulness of our own present interest."
Holmes, Carl
* "Without change there is no improvement, there is no hope, there
is no
future. Plan for change."
Holmes, John E. (wfs)
* “A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You
are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.”
Holmes, Marjorie
*
"A child's education should begin at least 100 years before they
are
born." (*)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) (Also, see Inge, William R.)
* "All life is an experiment"
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* "Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a
necessity."
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* "I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as
in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must
sail
sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail,
and
not drift, nor lie at anchor."
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege
of
wisdom to listen."
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (The Poet at the Breakfast Table 1872, ch 10.)
* “Life is a great bundle of little things.”
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
*
"Man is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and
to affirm the worth of an end, is to create an ideal."
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a person's upper
chamber, if they have common sense on the ground floor."
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* "The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as
in what direction we are moving."
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* “The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.”
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* “The young person knows the rules, but the old person knows the exceptions.”(*)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* “What lies behind us and what lies befre us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* "Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek,
To take one blow, and turn the other cheek;
It is not written what a man shall do
If the rude caitiff smite the other too!"
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Non-Resistance 1861.
* "You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilise all the power
that is
within you. All people have claims on man, and to the person with special
talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a person take
part in the actions and clashes of their time than the peril of being
judged not to have lived at all."(*)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
* “The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how
we behave when we don’t know what to do.”
Holt, John
* “People do not just get together, they get together to do something.”
Homans G.C. (1995:7, The Human Group)
*
"Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind
blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees
burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round."
Homer
* "To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have
experienced the things they are better than."
Homolka, Oscar
* “I don’t know about management techniques as such. I only know about
engineering and people. The most important thing is the respect for people
within the corporation, and so it’s incumbent on the managers to create
an environment within a corporation in which all employees are encouraged
to take initiatives in carrying out the work, and doing the work with
pleasure.”
Honda, Soichiro
*
"I have come to terms with the future. From this day onward I will
walk easy on the earth. Plant trees. Kill no living things. Live in harmony
with all creatures. I will restore the earth where I am. Use no more of
its resources than I need. And listen, listen to what it is telling me."
Hooey, M.J. Slim
* "The great need today in every phase of our social, economical
and political life is understanding. It has always been so, but today
the need is even greater."
Hook, Charles R.
* "Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.'
Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)
* "I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty."
Hooper, Ellen Sturgis
* "All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must
be growth
within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them."
Hoover, Herbert
* “Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as
knowing what to do next.”
Hoover, Herbert
*
"In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be
learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken,
but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding.
Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does
not come through instruction."
Hope Anthony
* “If you don’t have charity in your heart, you have the worst form of heart trouble.”
Hope, Bob
* “A nation’s greatness resides not in her material resources, but in her will, faith, intelligence, and moral forces.”
Hoppin,
James M.
* "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous
circumstances would have lain dormant."
Horace (65-8BC)
(Or "Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." Horace)
* “Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that fate allows you.”
Horace
* “Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.”
Horace
* “Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.”
Horace
* "Happy the person and happy them alone. Those who are secure within can say tomorrow doesn't matter, for I have lived today."(*)
Horace
* “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life”.
Horace
*
"The changing year's successive plan
Proclaims mortality to man."
Horace
* "To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Nothing
that
can make a person happy and keep them that way."(*)
Horace
* "While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put
no
trust in the future."
Horace
* "What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and
to
tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
Horner, Marina
* "Our definition of success is unorthodox. We claim that any person
who is
honest, fair, tolerant, kindly, charitable of others and well behaved
is a
success, no matter what their station in life."
House, Jay E.
* “I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them
lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”
Houston, Whitney
(b 1963)
*
"Youth is a frightening age ... so many problems; so little wisdom
to
solve them."
Hoving, Walter
* "Every successful person I have heard of has done the best they
could
with conditions as they found them, and not waited until the next year
for
better."
Howe, Edgar Watson
* "No person would listen to you talk if they didn't know it was
their turn
next."(*)
Howe, Ed (E.W.)
* "The greatest thing in the world is for a person to be able to
do
something well, and say nothing about it."
Howe, Ed (E.W.)
* "The secret of the person who is universally interesting is that
they are
universally interested."
Howells, William Dean
* “He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.”
Howitt, Mary
* “Down in their hearts, wise people know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.”
Hubbard,
Elbert (1859-1915, US writer)
*
"Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes everyday; wisdom
consists in not exceeding the limit."(*)
Hubbard, Elbert
* "Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get
paid for
any more than they do."
Hubbard, Elbert
* "It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability
in others is the true test."
Hubbard, Elbert
* "Life is just one damned thing after another."
Hubbard, Elbert
* "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds
in the
commonplace."
Hubbard, Elbert
* "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary people but no machine
can
do the work of one extraordinary person."
Hubbard, Elbert
* "People are not punished for their sins, but by them."(*)
Hubbard, Elbert
* "Pessimism is only the name that people of weak nerves give to
wisdom"
Hubbard, Elbert
* "Power flows to the people who know how. Responsibilities gravitate
to
the people who can shoulder them."
Hubbard, Elbert
* “Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”
Hubbard, Elbert
* “Responsibility is the price of freedom”
Hubbard, Elbert
* "The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one."
Hubbard, Elbert
* "The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than
the way
in which you take it."
Hubbard, Elbert
* To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Hubbard, Elbert
* “The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.”
Hubbard, Elbert
* “To know when to be generous and when to be firm – this is wisdom.”
Hubbard, Elbert
*
"We work to become, not to acquire."
Hubbard, Elbert
* " Honesty pays, but doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."
Hubbard, Kin
*
"The person who studiously avoids work usually works far harder than
the
person who pleasantly confronts it and does it. People who cannot work
are
not happy people."
Hubbard, L. Ron
*
"To-morrow cheats us all. Why dost thou stay,
And leave undone what should be done to-day?
Begin -- the present minute's in thy power;
But still t'adjourn, and wait a fitter hour,
Is like the clown, who at some river's side
Expecting stands, in hopes the running tide
Will all ere long be past. Fool! not to know
It still has flow'd the same, and will forever flow."
Hughes
* "A person has to live with themselves and they should see to it
that they
always have good company."
Hughes, Charles Evans
* "I believe in work, hard work and long hours of work. people do
not break
down from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."
Hughes, Charles Evans
* "As the purse is emptied so the heart is filled."
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)
* “Have courage for the greatest sorrow of life, and patience for the small one; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake>”
Hugo, Victor
*
"If you would civilise a man, begin with his grandmother."
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)
* Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
Hugo, Victor
* "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
Hugo, Victor
* “Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
Hugo, Victor
*
“People do not lack strength; they lack will."
Hugo, Victor
* "Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste
of
time."
Hugo, Victor
*
“There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh
and blood tomorrow.”
Hugo, Victor, (Les Miserables, 1862.)
* "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved
for
yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself."
Hugo, Victor
* “Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
Hugo, Victor
* "Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."
Hulbert, Harold S.
* “Knowledge without action is not knowledge.”
Hujwiri
* “A wise person proportions their beliefs to the evidence.”
Hume, David
*
"True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what
is
best worth doing."
Humphrey, Edward Porter
* "If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have.
But I do
not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.
Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The
hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate.
It's easy to take an extreme position."
Humphrey, Hubert H. (U.S. Senator, 1911-1978)
* “The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand
of a neighbour.”
Humphrey, Hubert H.
*
"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough law
courts,
to enforce a law not supported by the people."
Humphrey, Hubert H.
* “Those who dare to be fools, are taking the first step in the direction
of wisdom.”(*)
Huneker, James Gibbons
*
"The believer is happy; the doubter is wise."
Hungarian Proverb
* "Where ambition ends happiness begins."
Hungarian Proverb
* “It takes a clever person to turn cynic and a wise person to be clever
enough not to.”
Hurst, Fannie
*
"We have no right to dictate through irresponsible action now, or
narrow
mindedness, the future of our children."
King Hussein of Jordan
* “One reason that history repeats itself is that so many people were not listening the first time.”
Hussey, Margaret
*
"Success consists of a series of little daily victories."
Hutar, Laddie F.
* "Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best possible
means."
Hutcheson, Francis (1694-1746. An inquiry into the origin of our ideas
of
beauty and virtue, 1725, 1,5)
* "Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for
their
curiosity, their intolerance of shame, the clarity and ruthlessness of
their vision."
Huxley, Aldous
* "Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify
themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life
full, significant, and interesting."
Huxley, Aldous
* "Experience is not what happens to people. It is what a person
does with what happens to them."
Huxley, Aldous
* "So long as men worship the Ceasars and Napoleans, Ceasars and
Napoleans
will duly arise and make them miserable."
Huxley, Aldous
* "That we do not learn very much from the lessons of history is
the
most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
Huxley, Aldous
* “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
Huxley, Aldous
*
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving
and that's your own self. Your own self,' he repeated. So you have to
begin
there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you've
worked on your own corner."
Huxley, Aldous
* " Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are
generally
those who achieve something."
Huxley, Aldous, (Proper Studies 1927, 'Note on Dogma')
* "We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate of people
are
living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more
than
a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The
human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealised
possibilities."
Huxley, Sir Julian
* "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.'
Huxley, Thomas H
* “’Learn what is true in order to do what is right’ is the summing up
of the whole duty of man”
Huxley, Thomas Henry
*
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability
to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned,
and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last
lesson
that they learn thoroughly."(*)
Huxley, Thomas Henry
* "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up
every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss
nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
Huxley, Thomas H
* "The consequences of our actions are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
Huxley Thomas H.
* "The great end of life is not knowledge, but action."
Huxley, Thomas H.
* “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is Wisdom.”
Huxley,
Thomas H.
* "We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and
the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner
they can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant
than it was before they entered it."
Huxley, Thomas H.
* “It does not make much difference what a person studies – all knowledge
is related, and the person who studies anything, if they keep at it, will
become learned.”(*)
Hypatia of Alexandria
*
"I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or
more of the facts that I usually never regret it It’s the guys who wait
to have everything perfect that drive you crazy."
Iacocca, Lee
*
"The thing is, you see, that the strongest man in the world is the
man who stands most alone."
Ibsen, Henrik
* “Seeking knowledge
The cautious guest
Who comes to the table
Speaks sparingly
Listens with ears
Learns with eyes
Such is the seeker on knowledge.”
Icelandic proverb
*
"All true wisdom is to be found far from the dwellings of men in
the great solitudes and it can only be attained through suffering.
Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind to that which is hidden from its fellows."(*)
Igjugarjuk, a Caribou Eskimo (1922)
*
"I too think that time and space are concepts created by the human
mind and that if we attempt to find out what their true natures are, we
are compelled to return to the nature of the greater life force."
Ikeda, Daisaku and Toynbee, Arnold (1976.)
* "A just society would be one in which liberty for one person is
constrained only by the demands created by equal liberty for another."
Illich, Ivan (1926-2002)
* "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy."
Illich, Ivan
* “Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship.”
Illich,
Ivan
* "There is a strong tendency for us to over-commit the future, so
that when the future becomes present, we seem to be conscious all the
time of having an acute scarcity, simply because we have committed ourselves
to about 30 hours a day instead of 24."
Illich, Ivan
* "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from
our children."
Indian American Proverb (Also Kenyan proverb)
* Kamini (lust), Kanchana (gold), and Kirti (fame), are the three obstacles
of self-realization."
Indian saying
* "Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans."
Indian saying
* “The greatest virtue is not to do evil, even to our enemies. If we respect ourselves, we will not commit evil, even in the smallest way.”
Indian saying
* “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a spiritual experience.”
Indian saying
*
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your
life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."
Indian saying
* "A person may build themselves a throne of bayonets, but they cannot
sit on it."(*)
Inge, William R. (Dean of St. Paul's)
* “It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when
that little wisdom is its own.”
Inge, William R
*
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."
Inge, William R.
* "The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated.
It
is a main cause of revolution, and would soon bring to an end all the
static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians."
Inge, William R.
* "The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shout."
Inge, William R.
* "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason
for
being so except that they are so."
Inge, William R.
* "The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored
people
are those who are consuming much and producing little."
Inge, William R.
* "The proper time to influence the character of a child is about
100 years
before it is born."(*)
Inge,
William R. (see also: Holmes, Oliver Wendell)
* “There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. ‘You forget’, said the Devil, with a chuckle, ‘that I have been evolving too.’
Inge, William R
* "The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the
right use
of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
As a person thinketh in their heart, so they are."
Inge, William R.
* "Few rich people own their own property. The property owns them."(*)
Ingersoll, Robert G.
* "It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education
than to have education without common sense."
Ingersoll, Robert G.
("Better
to have wisdom without knowledge, than knowledge without wisdom?"
bl)
*
"My creed is that:
Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make other so.
Ingersoll, Robert G.
*
"The true civilization is where everyone gives to every other every
right they claims for themselves."
Ingersoll, Robert G. (Limitations of Toleration)
* “As we grow in strength in our spiritual life, we give up the habit
of worrying. It serves no purpose other than to make us feel tense and
miserable. When I stop fretting about things that are beyond my control
and focus instead on generating optimistic and kind thoughts, my life
can begin to flow in ever more positive directions. Such a light and easy
approach to life enables me to take everything in my stride.”
Inner Space
*“Everything depends
on our thinking. If I think in the right way I will be light. If I think
in a wasteful way I'll be heavy. Waste thoughts are dangerous. They waste
my time. They allow the past to come alive, then I forget the present
and question the future.”
Inner
Space
*”If
I cannot appreciate what I have at the moment, how can I value what the
future has in store?”
Inner
Space
*”If I fill this moment
with happiness and peace, it will increase the chances of the next moment
being like that also.”
Inner Space
* “If you spend all your time
thinking about what happened to you yesterday, then your experience and
enjoyment of today will be that much less.”
Inner Space
* “Look For Goodness: In everything, goodness is there. Our goal
is to find it. In every person, the best is there, our job is to recognise
it. In every situation, the positive is there, our opportunity is to see
it. In every problem, the solution is there, our responsibility is to
provide it. In every setback, the success is there, our adventure is to
discover it. In every crisis, the reason is there, our challenge is to
understand it. By seeing the goodness, we'll be very enthusiastic and
our lives will be all the richer.”
Inner Space
* ““Love is based on understanding, mutual trust and respect.
Love dwells in the soul. Allow this love to flow out and around.
Without love, all of life's treasures are loacked away from our vision
and experiences.”
Inner Space
* “More valuable than
the things we give to each other are the gifts of virtues we pass on quietly
to others through our selfless and noble actions. These gifts are truly
precious because they are imperishable and they multiply the more we share
them.”
Inner Space
* “Nobility: Anger finishes all wisdom. Ego finishes
regard. Worry eats away your life. Bribery finishes all justice. Greed
finishes all honesty. Fear eats away a human being. The greatest jewellery
in the world is your own nobility. Your own best companion in the world
is your determined thought. Those who do wish for anything receive everything.
Renounce that happiness in which there is sorrow for others.”
Inner Space
|
|
* “Our foremost duty is to have compassion and forgiveness and to uplift others!”
Inner Space
* “Self-respect
is not a matter of what you are doing in your life, but rather of how
you are doing it. It requires that you bring quality and virtue into each
action, whatever that action may be.”
Inner
Space
|
*
“The lotus is a symbol of purity. With roots in the mud, the flower remains
above the dirty water. Live a lotus life. Be in the world, but unaffected
by any negativity.”
Inner Space
*
“The most successful people in life are not go getters, but go givers!”
Inner Space
* “To do the right thing: Think and then Act, rather
than the other way around. Wisdom is to know when to act and
when not to.”
Inner Space
.
* “Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.”
Inner Space
.* “What I am experiencing at this
moment is the result of choices and decisions made in the past; what I
will experience in the future depends on choice and decisions I make now.”
Inner Space
* “Winners make big things happen a little bit at a time.”
Inner Space
* “To be truly creative, you have to be curious. When we’re truly
curious, we step away from perceiving things as we always have and allow
ourselves to spot the newness that exists.”
Inner Space
*
"And I thought over again
My small adventures
As with a shore wind I drifted out
In my kayak
And thought I was in danger,
My tears
Those small ones
That I thought so big
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach
And yet, there is only
One great thing,
The only thing
To live to see in huts and on journeys
The great day that dawns,
And the light that fills the world."
Inuit song
* “You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”
Irish Proverb
* “Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.”
Irish saying
* “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”
Iraguois Confederacy (From the Great Law of the Iraguois Confederacy)
*
"Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every
bramble
eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a
velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wilderness
and
variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem
the
torrent, and dare the precipice."
Irving, Washington
* " A persons' true wealth is the good they do in this world."
Islam (Hadith)
* "Happy is the person who finds fault with themselves instead of
finding
fault with others."(*)
Islam (Hadith)
* "Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented
mind."
Islam (Ascribed to Muhammad)
* "The best people are those who are useful to others."(*)
Islam (Hadith)
* “Of all possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.”
Isocrates
*
"Those who praise anything I do and anything I say, they are not
my good
friends. Those who with honest opinion tell me my faults and my mistakes,
they are my good friends."
Isocrates
* "Between saying and doing many pairs of shoes are worn out."
Italian proverb
* "From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance."
Italian proverb
* "The person who lives only by hope will die with despair."(*)
Italian proverb
* "By comprehending
all the world
in all the world,
just as it is,
in all the world
there is release,
in all the world
nothing is held."
Itivuttaka: 112
*
"Happy people know what brings them happiness and consistently make
those things a priority.”
Izzo, John
*
"Living now as if today’s might be my last sunset, I found myself
being more present.”
Izzo, John
* "Often we discover wisdom when we are old,
When most of our life is behind us,
When it is too late to act on what we have learned."
Izzo, John
*
"Some people end their lives with deep satisfaction and with few
regrets. Others die with bitterness or with sad resignation at the life
they might have lived.”
Izzo, John
*
"Wisdom is different and fundamentally more important than knowledge.”
Izzo, John
* “Once we have experienced the unity and interconnectedness of all things,
love is no longer the commandment, but the natural expression of our own
essence. It will no longer appear as an action required of us, but as
the way of being of transpersonal existence. I’m aware that this might
sound a bit pie-in-the-sky for some people. Nevertheless, coexistence
worthy of our humanity will remain impossible as long as we fail to experience
this reality.”
Jaeger, Willigis
*
" Society is all wrong. All those vibrations of fear. You have to
change
not only the set-up but the whole concept. You have to learn how to live
in
the moment and enjoy it."
Jagger, Mick
* "Birth does not lead to greatness; but the cultivation of virtues
by a
person leads to greatness."
Jainism, Vajjalagam 687
* "The best passion is compassion."
Jamaican proverb
* "But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding
yourselves with false ideas. Because if any person is a hearer of the
word
and not a doer, they are like someone looking at their natural face in
a
glass; for after looking at themselves they go away, and in a short time
they have no memory of what they look like. But those who go on looking
into the true law which makes them free, being not a hearer without memory
but a doer putting it into effect, this person will have a blessing on
their acts."
Letter of St James, Chapter 1 verses 22-25 AD 60.
* "A free person is as jealous of their responsibilities as they
are of their liberties."(*)
James, William (1842-1910, American philosopher and psychologist)
* "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices."
James, William
* "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your
belief will help create the fact."
James, William
* "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an
immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads
suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne
particle in its tissue."
James, William
* "I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions
and big
successes. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work
from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world
like so many root lets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which,
if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of human pride."
James, William
* "If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally
gained
for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private
theatricals from which one may withdraw at will."
James, William
*
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which,
more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome."
James, William
* "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter
what
you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had
that, what have you had."
James, Henry
*
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing
or
on being."
James, William
* "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
James, William, (The Principles
of Psychology)
* "The balloon of experience is in fact of course tied to the earth,
and
under that necessity we swing, thanks to a rope of remarkable length,
in
the more or less commodious can of the imagination; but it is by the rope
we know where we are, and from the moment that cable is cut we are at
large
and unrelated."
James, Henry
*
"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The
impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
James, William
* "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
James, William
* "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being
can alter
their life by altering their attitude of mind."
James, Henry
*
"The greatest thing then, in all education, is to make the nervous
system
our ally, instead of our enemy."
James, William
* "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast
it."
James, William
* "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold as novel,
without
incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
James, Henry
* "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing
is
habitual but indecision."
James, William
* "There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who
hear it."
James, William
* “These then are my last words to you.. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
James,
William
* “The life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
James, William
*
"Until you try, you don't know what you can't do."
James, Henry
*
"Whatever you are it is your own friends who make your world."
James, William
* "Giving means extending one's Love with no conditions, no expectations,
and no boundaries ....having no desire to get anything from, or to change
another person."
Jampolsky, Gerald (Love is Letting Go of Fear)
* “Concentrate on fixing the problem, not on apportioning the blame.”
Japanese proverb
* " I know I am wise for I know when enough is enough."
Japanese inscription on water fountain at a monastery in Kyoto.
* "Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an
ass."
Japanese Proverb.
* “Money grows on the
tree of persistence”.
Japanese Proverb
* “None of us is as smart
as all of us”.
Japanese Proverb
* “No person will find the best way to do a thing unless they love to do that thing.”
Japanese proverb
* “One kind word can warm three winter months.”
Japanese
Proverbword can warm three winter months"
*
"One kind word can warm three months winter months."
Japanese Proverb.
* "Those who smile rather than rage are always the stronger."(*)
Japanese wisdom
* "Who travels for love, finds a thousand miles only one mile."
Japanese Proverb.
* "When you study the history of life, and step back to look at this
long
history with the perspective of several hundred million years, you see
a
flow and direction in it -- from the simple to the complex, from lower
forms to higher, and always towards greater intelligence -- and you wonder:
can this history of events leading to man, with its clear direction, yet
be
undirected?"
Jastrow, Robert
* "How many toil to lay up riches which they never enjoy."
Jay, William
* "Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses
certain exceptional properties."
Jeans, Sir James
* “Nothing
gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool
and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Jefferson, Thomas
* “ Determine never to be idle. No
person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses
any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
Jefferson,
Thomas
*
“Guiding Principles:
I. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
II. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
III. Never spend your money before you have it.
IV. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear
to you.
V. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
VI. We never repent of having eaten too little.
VII. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
VIII. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
IX. Take things always by their smooth handle.
X. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”
Jefferson, Thomas
* “Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of Wisdom. Let it be our endeavour to merit the character of a just nation.”
Jefferson, Thomas
* “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never has been.”
Jefferson, Thomas
*
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could
propose
happiness for themselves from the exercise of power over others."
Jefferson, Thomas
* “I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
Jefferson,
Thomas
* "I
like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Jefferson, Thomas
* “In matters
of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a
rock.”
Jefferson, Thomas
* “It is
neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give
you happiness.”
Jefferson, Thomas
* “Nothing
gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool
and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Jefferson, Thomas
*
"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where
you fail."
Jefferson, Thomas
* "The most valuable of talents is that of never using two words
when one will do."
Jefferson, Thomas
* "The qualifications of self-government in society are not innate.
They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will
require time and probably much suffering."
Jefferson, Thomas
* "When a person assumes a public trust, they should consider themselves
as public property."(*)
Jefferson, Thomas
* "Whenever a person has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness appears in his conduct."
Jefferson,
Thomas
* "The inlet of a person's mind is what they learn, the outlet is
what they accomplish. If their mind is not fed by a continued supply of
new ideas which they put to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet
in action, their mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the
individual who owns it and is useless to the community."
Jenks, Jeremiah W.
* "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."
Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew, 26:52)
* "A person's life does not consist in the abundance of their possessions."
Jesus of Nazareth (submitted by Hal Fulton, wfs)
* "By their fruits ye shall know them."
Jesus of Nazareth
* "A wise person hears one word and understands two."(*)
Jewish proverb
* "Those who save a single person, it is as though they saved the
whole world."
Jewish sage
"Great people are not always wise." (*)
Job, ch32 v9.
"The price of wisdom is above rubies",
Job, ch 28 v18
("Wisdom is better than rubies" proverbs viii,II)
* "A new commandment I give unto you. That ye love one another; as
I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
John 13:34, (Bible)
* "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue,
but in deed and in truth."
1. John 3:18, (Bible)
* "The social progress, order, security and peace of each country
are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and
peace of all other countries."
John XXIII (1881-1963)
* "To endure all things with a steady and peaceful mind, not only
brings with it many blessings to the soul, but also enables us, in the
midst of our difficulties, to have a clear judgment about them, and to
supply the fitting remedy for them."
St John of the Cross, (mystic, 1542-91)
* "The future belongs to the things that can grow whether it be a
tree or
democracy."
Johnson, Kenneth D.
* "A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to
know what
is right."
Johnson, Lyndon B. (36th President of the United States 1908-1973)
(
also ‘a leaders’ …bl)
* "At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer
for
all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world
-
comes to a single word. That word is 'education'"
Johnson, Lyndon B
(But 'what is 'education' - passing on useful knowledge ie wisdom?' bl)
* "The future holds little hope for any government where the present
holds
no hope for the people."
Johnson, Lyndon B.
*
“(The great society) is a place where people are more concerned with the
quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”
Johnson, Lyndon B.
*
"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that
we can
solve by ourselves."
Johnson, Lyndon B.
*
"We can draw lessons from the past but we cannot live in it."
Johnson, Lyndon B.
* “Remember to keep your thoughts positive, for your
thoughts become your words; remember to keep your words positive, for
your words become your actions; remember to keep your actions positive,
for your actions become your habits; and remember to keep your habits
positive, because your habits become your destiny.”
Johnson, Peter
*
"A decent provision for poor is the true test of civilization"
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
* " A person always makes themselves greater as they increase their
knowledge." (*)
Johnson, Samuel
* "A person who both spends and saves money is the happiest, because
they
have both enjoyments." (*)
Johnson, Samuel
* " A wise person will make haste to forgive, because they know the
true
value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
(*)
Johnson, Samuel (The Rambler)
* "Curiosity is in great and generous minds, the first passion and
the
last."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics
of a
vigorous intellect."
Johnson, Samuel
*”Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness.”
Johnson, Samuel
*
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry
that you retire."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing
to give
all they have to get knowledge."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Few enterprises of great labour or hazard would be undertaken
if we had
not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect to get from them."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of
temperance, and the parent of liberty. Those that are extravagant will
quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite
corruption."
Johnson, Samuel
* "If a person does not make new acquaintances as they advance through
life, they will soon find themselves left alone. A person should keep
their
friendship in constant repair."
Johnson, Samuel
* "If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not
give
myself the trouble to go in quest of it."
Johnson, Samuel
* "I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have
his all
neglected, be it ever so little."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Johnson, Samuel
* "It is our first duty to serve society, and, after we have done
that, we
may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. A youthful passion
for
abstracted devotion should not be encouraged."
Johnson, Samuel
* "It is better to live rich than to die rich."
Johnson, Samuel
* "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be
sometimes
cheated than not to trust."
Johnson, Samuel
* "It matters not how a person dies,
but how they live.
The act of dying is not of importance,
it lasts so short a time." (*)
Johnson, Samuel
* "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we
know where
we can find information upon it."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,
passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing
them gratified. Those that labor in any great or laudable undertakings
have
their fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.
...
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them is the highest human
felicity." (*)
Johnson, Samuel
* "Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation
on how it shall be spent."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Johnson, Samuel, (Johnsonian Miscellanies vol11.)
* "People more often requires to be reminded than informed."(*)
Johnson, Samuel
* "Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely
given them little."
Johnson, Samuel
*
"None but a fool worries about things they cannot influence."
(*)
Johnson, Samuel
* "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must
be first overcome."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity;
but art
and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment
produces something new to those who have quickened their faculties by
diligent observation."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Resolve not to be poor, whatever you have, spend less. Poverty
is a
great enemy to human happiness, it certainly destroys liberty, and it
makes
some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
Johnson, Samuel
* "The future is purchased by the present."
Johnson, Samuel
* "The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience
for the benefit of the public."
Johnson, Samuel
* "The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any
undertaking."
Johnson, Samuel
* "There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. it
is by
studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as
little misery and as much happiness as possible."
Johnson, Samuel
* "There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Those who praises everybody praises nobody." (*)
Johnson, Samuel
* "To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good
that is
within our reach, is the great art of life."
Johnson, Samuel
* “To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect other to keep it is folly.”
Johnson, Samuel
* "Wealth heaped on wealth nor truth nor safety buys.
The dangers gather as the treasures rise."
Johnson, Samuel
* "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes
the
past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances
us
in the dignity of thinking beings."
Johnson, Samuel
* "When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Johnson, Samuel
* "We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they
have
never deceived us."
Johnson, Samuel
* “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.”
Johnson,
Samuel
* "All television is educational television. The question is: what
is it
teaching?"
Johnson, Nicholas
* "Excellence can be achieved, if we:
Care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe,
Dream more than others think is practical,
Expect more than others think is possible."
Johnson-Ross, Deborah
* “No person was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time
saddled with a responsibility.”
Johnston, Gerald W.
*
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile."
Jones, Franklin P.
* "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and
your
belief will help create the fact."
Jones, William
* "My opinion is that power should always be distrusted, in whatever
hands
it is placed."
Jones, Sir William
* "No one has ever found wisdom without also being a fool."
Jong, Erica
(ie: 'You only find wisdom by experimenting with ideas....'? BL)
* "Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom.
Life is
not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach
us
how better we should love."
Jordan, Barbara
*
"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was
lived
for."
Jordan, David Starr
* "Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it."
Jordan, David Starr (The Philosophy
of Despair)
* “A person who trusts everyone is a fool, and a person who trusts no one is a fool.”(*)
Jordan, Robert
* “Map out your future, but do it in pencil.”
Jovi, Jon Bon
*
"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for
doing
them."
Jowett, Benjamin
* "Mistakes are the portals of discovery"
Joyce, James
*
"For me there is only one path and that is the path of the heart.
And
there I travel, looking breathlessly."
Juan, Don, (Yaqui Indian).
* "Loving kindness is greater than laws, and the charities of life
are more
than all ceremonies."
Judaism (Talmud)
* "Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your
failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not
failing, you’re not growing.”
Judd,
H. Stanley
*
"A person becomes a conservative at that moment in their life when
they
suddenly realize they have something to conserve."(*)
Julber, Eric
“They are simply stated: industry, compassion, humility, patience, honesty and courage. When all your actions are congruent and aligned with those principles, you will feel a deep sense of inner harmony and peace. Living this way will inevitably lead you to spiritual success. This is because you will be doing what is right.”
Julian (in ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’by Robin S. Sharma, p134.
* “To live life to the fullest, you must stand guard at the gate of your garden and let only the very best information enter. You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought – not even one. The most joyful, dynamic and contented people of this world are no different from you or me in terms of their makeup. We are all flesh and bones. We all come from the same universal source. However, the ones who do more than just exist, the ones who fan the flames of their human potential and truly savor the magical dance of life do different things than those whose lives are ordinary. Foremost among the things that they do is adopt a positive paradigm about their world and all that is in it.”
Julian (in ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’by Robin S. Sharma, p42.
* “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
Julian quoting (in ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’by Robin S. Sharma, p50.
* “Wisdom without proper tools for its application is no wisdom at all”
Julian quoting (in ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’by Robin S. Sharma, p153.
* "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence
is to
kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
Jung, Carl Gustav
*
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.”
Jung, Carl Gustav
* “I have observed that a life directed to an aim is in general better, richer and healthier than an aimless one, and that it is better to go forwards with the stream of time than backwards against it.”
Jung, Carl Gustav
*
"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should
first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better
be changed in ourselves."
Jung, Carl Gustav
* "The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its
own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning."
Jung, Carl Gustav
* "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than
the greatest of things without it."
Jung, Carl Gustav
*
“We have become rich in knowledge, but poor in wisdom. The centre of gravity
of our interest has switched over to the materialistic side, whereas the
ancients preferred a mode of thought nearer to the fantastic type. To
the classical mind everything was still saturated with mythology.”
Jung, Carl Gustav (Collected Works Vol5:23)
*
"We have in our possession perhaps more knowledge, and power resulting
from our knowledge, than ever before - but less and less are we morally
committed to our knowledge and its power."
Jung, Carl Gustav
* "We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real
danger that exists is man himself ... We know nothing of man, far too
little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all
coming evil."
Jung, Carl Gustav
* "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates,
love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
Jung, Carl Gustav
* "The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours."
Jusserand, Jules
* “ All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
Juvenal
* “Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Juvenal
(Satires)