Words of Wisdom Quotes

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

I always advise people never to give advice.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.