Quotes on Words Of Wisdom

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. .... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.