Wisdom Quotes

May they who love you, be like the sun when it rises in its strength
(Judges 5:13)

If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there’ and it will obey you.
(Jesus)

Whatsoever you desire, pray, believing that you have already received it; and it will be yours.
(Jesus)

The will of the Father is that you should bear much fruits. It is in this that you become my desiciples.
(Jesus)

If you believe in me, you will do all the works that I do, and even greater works.
(Jesus)

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
(attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC)

"There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry, and there is no greater wealth than contentment."
(attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC)

"People's tendency towards good is as water's tendency is to flow downhill." (Mencius, Chinese philosopher, c.300BC)

"Eat less, taste more."
(traditional Chinese proverb)

"Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up."
(traditional Chinese proverb)

"The higher my rank, the more humbly I behave. The greater my power, the less I exercise it. The richer my wealth, the more I give away. Thus I avoid, respectively, envy and spite and misery."
(Sun Shu Ao, Chinese minister from the Chu Kingdom, Zhou Dynasty, c.600BC)

"Success under a good leader is the people's success."
(attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC)

"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others."
(Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC)

"Softness overcomes hardness."
(Zuo Qiuming, court writer of the State of Lu, and contemporary of Confucius, c.500BC)

"The greatest capability of superior people is that of helping other people to be virtuous."
(Mencius, Chinese philosopher, c.300BC)

"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others."
(Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC)

"Failure is the mother of success."
(traditional Chinese proverb)

"It is not wise for a blind man, riding a blind horse, to approach the edge of a deep pond."
(traditional Chinese proverb)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." (Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC)

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool for ever."
(traditional Chinese proverb)

"With a strong heart and a ready mind what have I to fear?"
(Chu Yuan, aka Qu Yuan, Chinese politician-turned-poet, c.300BC - China's first great poet and considered the father of Chinese poetry, his death by drowning in 278BC is celebrated every year on the Day of Dragon Boat Festival)

"Half and orange tastes as sweet as a whole one."
(traditional Chinese proverb)

"The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first."
(attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC)

"He knows most who says he knows least."
(Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC)

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others.
(Alfred Adler)

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when none else recognizes that it is present.
(Deepak Chopra )

For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.
(Paulo Coelho)

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
(Ram Dass)

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
(Charles Dickens )

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.
(Allison DuBois)

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
(Albert Einstein)

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
(Mahatma Gandhi)

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse. However, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
(Goethe)

He can only obey the apparently alien impulse within him and follow where it leads, sensing that his work is greater than himself, and wields a power which is not his and which he cannot command.
(Carl Gustav Jung)

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
(Carl Gustav Jung)

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.
Buddha)