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May you find great value in these Ancient quotes and sayings.
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Do not do to others what would anger you
if done to you by others.
- Isocrates (Ancient Greek)
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
The older I get, the more wisdom I find
in the ancient rule of taking first things first.
A process which often reduces
the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Be still and know who you are.
- Kirtana
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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