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Wisdom, Quotes and Sayings
I have a personal belief that there is some truth in everything. And in order for me to see it, I have to truly be looking for truth in my heart. I have always been since I was a kid, though I did not always realize it. And in order to see it, I must be observant and open. Some of what I put here, though generally true, I also found humorous. I hope that you enjoy these various sayings, proverbs and observations.
--me (in reference to my "Psychopathic Participation" essay) Love is the great healer. It can be used to heal the soul and body of a person, the Earth and can be used to create life. -- anonymous Hate destroys Love, and Love heals everything. So do Love and don't hate. -- anonymous I'ld rather have a forest around me than people who smile when they don't mean it. -- Vladimir Megre Television is a mind control device. Got TV? -- anonymous If God is a loving God, then why contradict Love with acts of hate? -- anonymous Heaven is where the police are British, the lovers French, the mechanics German, the chefs Italian, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German, and it is all organized by the Italians. -- Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records If corporations are legally people, shouldn't they be treated and/or arrested for their psychopathic behavior? -- anonymous "The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." -- Albert Einstein "War never creates peace, and peace never creates war." -- anonymous "God does not advocate fear, has no need of worship or doctrine and has hidden nothing from us." -- anonymous "Technological progress has merely provided us with a more efficient means for going backwards." -- unknown
If you are not doing anything wrong, as in unethical, but it is illegal, then the law is unethical. If however, someone is doing something that is clearly unethical, but it is legal, either stated or by omission, then that someone is wrong, and must be stopped in spite of the law.
So long as the people are dependent on a healthy economy, they will be unhealthy. But when the economy is dependent on a healthy people, then they will be.
Gardeners communicate with God. Farmers communicate with brokers.
If someone is advocating war, look for the lie.
"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."
When a government is betraying the people, it is committing treason against the people.
When a government declares a war on the activities of it's people, it is actually declaring a war on it's people, which is treason.
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."
You must listen to hear.
"Pleasure is very different from happiness."
“The grass is greener when there are no sides.”
"Any path to knowledge is a path to God—or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use"
"Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"
America is about the only place where you are defined by what you do, and not who you are.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Men are paint by numbers. Women are impressionist.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
In a relationship, words are pillows or knives. One comforts, and the other cuts. If you use knives in your relationships, you will end them. If you use pillows, you will comfort them. One causes laughter, the other causes crying. And a pillow fight is better than a knife fight any day, especially on bad days.
"Most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening."
You are not educated because you have spent years studying a subject in a school or college, you are educated when in the course of your life you demonstrate that you understand what your subject means in the course of your life, and everyone else's as well.
Philosophy: "The ungainly attempt to tackle questions that come naturally to children, using methods that come naturally to lawyers."
Every thought is a creation.
The Department of Homeland Security was not designed
to protect Americans from terrorists. It was designed to
protect politicians from Americans.
I think that it's a really good illustration of competing mindsets to where people believe that legislation somehow makes things secure. Legislation is fiction. It's up to people to believe in it, before it will be effective.
It's not in their nature that consequences can be a deterrent.
Everything in the universe is energy.
When fighting for freedom is a crime, then everything is a crime. When cops change the rules at will on the streets, then everyone is a potential criminal.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
All war is based on deception.
Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.
Playing music is letting your soul breathe.
My music is the word I express with. And it tends to me in a minor key.
The world is our vision.
4 out of 3 Americans have a hard time with fractions.
"The light and energy of the stars are the substance of the thoughts of the universe."
"Social skills are the ability to play mind games."
Nature always has something to say. And it's always true. To hear it, you
"It doesn't matter if I like it or not. It only matter if it is truth."
"Respect can only be earned by being respectful, never by fear. One should
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
"It is not our abilities that define who we are, but our choices."
"Listen, or your tongue will keep you deaf."
"A crime by definition is not necessarily illegal.
"They must find it difficult,
"A world of we, not a world of me."
Of all the knowledge in the world, I know not a drop in the ocean.
To find truth, a person has to truly want it in their heart.
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
Love is as fragile as your tears; Love is stronger than your fears.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
"Some people are born very far from home."
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on
walking.
A State of War Only Serves as an Excuse for Domestic Tyranny.
The more laws people make, the less freedom they have.
Someday I'll be perfect. But not today.
Your thoughts become your words,
The opposite of success is not failure, it's quitting. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Myth: Education = Good Job = Success.
The reward for working hard is more hard work.
"I've been rich and I've
been poor, and the one reason
"I've had people tell me I'm materialistic.
Two natures beat within my breast.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine,
A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own,
You can't walk a mile with one step. But you can with many steps.
A woman inspires us to do great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
All hat and no bull...
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.
Man has dominated man to his injury.
History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave.
"There are so many kinds of riches, and only one of them is gold."
Its ok to look back, just don't stare.
A prayer...
Fear is the mind killer.
If you really want something you find a way. If you dont you find an excuse.
Con-gress and Pro-gress
Law at the expense the United States Constitution is unconstitutional.
Law at the expense of justice is criminal.
In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.
A dream is unrehearsed.
What you treasure most is in your heart.
Only the teachable learn.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
Concerning Free Enterprise
All man's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Things do come to those who wait, but only things left over from those that hustle.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
The impossible is often the untried.
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
A man's mind, whether cultivated or neglected, must and will bring forth.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality,
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Good judgement comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgement.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
Man is what he believes.
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence
Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
When the fight begins within himself, a man is worth something.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.
If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.
Begin growing from where you are- not from where others think you ought to be by now.
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