Famous Quotes About wisdom

If youre not tough its hard to survive in this world; and if youre not kind then you dont deserve to survive.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The judgment of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream.

It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change.

A truths initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed... When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

If there is righteousness in the heart There will be beauty in the character; If there is beauty in the character There will be harmony in the home; When there is harmony in the home There will be order in the nation; When there is order in the nation There will be peace in the world.