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To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Related topics: Wisdom
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into.
- Wayne Dyer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
The things that have acquired unity are these:
Heaven by unity has become clear;
Earth by unity has become steady;
The Spirit by unity has become spiritual;
The Valley by unity has become full;
All things by unity have come into existence.
- Lao Tzu
Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
You will always have habits -
things you do regularly and without conscious thought -
but you do have the ability to CHOOSE your habits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
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