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

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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

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

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

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

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

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

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

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

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

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

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

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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 greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

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

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

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

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

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

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

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

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

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

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

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

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

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

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

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

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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

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

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