Quotes by David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan

Related topics: Wisdom

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie