I think I’ve got wiser.
Vivienne WestwoodNothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleDemocracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. RooseveltSeventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody AllenHuman beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
Alice WalkerNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEffort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon HillWhen I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
DiogenesTruth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
Mark TwainThe truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
Noam ChomskyMy music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.
Frank OceanStrike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. MenckenHe who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
David GogginsLight troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGood judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will RogersI used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
Joyce MeyerA newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MenckenI hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
Abraham LincolnI will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
George H. W. BushThe ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon HillIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireFrustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.
Joyce MeyerEach success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry KissingerI have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.
Steve JobsThe day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
Madeleine AlbrightWhen befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin FranklinIt is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert OppenheimerForty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.
Jerry SeinfeldIf you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston ChurchillO wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
ChanakyaLet me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William ShakespeareNothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotI can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
George W. BushEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James BaldwinAs a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
LeBron JamesOur patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund BurkeWith ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.
Nikola TeslaIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James BaldwinJust because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
Joel OsteenFreedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul SartreHow one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.
Joyce MeyerBad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. RooseveltNo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PlatoIf time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin FranklinHey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.
Bob UeckerIf you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
Thich Nhat HanhThere is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William ShakespeareWhen you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
Ronald ReaganThat’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.
Jordan PetersonFaith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise PascalNo one is ever successful at everything that they do.
Dolly PartonAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
Ray BradburyI go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.
Abraham LincolnNo legacy is so rich as honesty.
William ShakespeareBy the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettThe deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe