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.




"I wish I was funny. Then I could be a funny psychopathic participant and make people laugh at the horrors they indirectly participate in. More laughing psychopaths. That's exactly what we need."
--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.
-- Daemon A. Bernstein

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.
-- Daemon A. Bernstein

Gardeners communicate with God. Farmers communicate with brokers.
-- Daemon A. Bernstein

If someone is advocating war, look for the lie.
-- anonymous

"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire

When a government is betraying the people, it is committing treason against the people.
-- anonymous

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.
-- anonymous

If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr.

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."
-- Nietzsche

You must listen to hear.
-- anonymous

"Pleasure is very different from happiness."
-- from the movie, 'Dorian Gray'

“The grass is greener when there are no sides.”
-- unknown

"Any path to knowledge is a path to God—or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use"
-- Arthur C. Clark

"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?"
-- Arthur C. Clarke

America is about the only place where you are defined by what you do, and not who you are.
-- Jon Fletcher

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-- unknown

Men are paint by numbers. Women are impressionist.
-- anonymous

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
-- Ambrose Bierce

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.
-- anonymous

"Most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening."
-- unknown

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.
-- anonymous

Philosophy: "The ungainly attempt to tackle questions that come naturally to children, using methods that come naturally to lawyers."
-- Philosopher David Hill

Every thought is a creation.
-- Anonymous

The Department of Homeland Security was not designed to protect Americans from terrorists. It was designed to protect politicians from Americans.
-- unknown

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.
-- Adrian Lamo

It's not in their nature that consequences can be a deterrent.
-- anonymous

Everything in the universe is energy.
-- Dr. Ben Johnson M.D. N.M.D. D.O. Physician

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.
-- Anonymous

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell

All war is based on deception.
-- Sun Tzu

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.
-- Douglas Adams

Playing music is letting your soul breathe.
-- Anonymous

My music is the word I express with. And it tends to me in a minor key.
-- Anonymous

The world is our vision.
-- Anonymous

4 out of 3 Americans have a hard time with fractions.
-- Bumper Sticker

"The light and energy of the stars are the substance of the thoughts of the universe."
-- Anonymous

"Social skills are the ability to play mind games."
-- Anonymous

Nature always has something to say. And it's always true. To hear it, you
have to listen where it isn't drowned out by other noise and distractions.
-- Anonymous

"It doesn't matter if I like it or not. It only matter if it is truth."
-- Anonymous

"Respect can only be earned by being respectful, never by fear. One should
not mistake fear for respect. Respect is respect only if it is accompanied
by true loyalty of the heart."
-- Anonymous

"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
-- Thelonious Monk

"It is not our abilities that define who we are, but our choices."
-- Professor Dumbledore

"Listen, or your tongue will keep you deaf."
-- Native American Proverb

"A crime by definition is not necessarily illegal.
And what is illegal is not necessarily a crime."
-- Anonymous

"They must find it difficult,
those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than truth as the authority."
-- G. Massey, Egyptologist

"A world of we, not a world of me."
-- Michael Moore

Of all the knowledge in the world, I know not a drop in the ocean.
-- Anonymous

To find truth, a person has to truly want it in their heart.
-- A fool said this in a moment of wisdom.

Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills;
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.
-- James Allen
As A Man Thinketh

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
-- James Allen

Love is as fragile as your tears; Love is stronger than your fears.
-- unknown (from a song I heard)

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- General George S. Patton

"Some people are born very far from home."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
-- Buddhist Saying

A State of War Only Serves as an Excuse for Domestic Tyranny.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The more laws people make, the less freedom they have.
-- anonymous

Someday I'll be perfect. But not today.
-- anonymous

Your thoughts become your words,
your words become your actions,
your actions become your habits,
your habits become your character,
your character becomes your destiny.

The opposite of success is not failure, it's quitting.
Move from failure to failure with great enthusiasm and you will succeed.

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.
- unknown

The reward for working hard is more hard work.
- unknown

"I've been rich and I've been poor, and the one reason
a lot of people get rich is they've been poor enough to hate it"
-- Dexter Yager

"I've had people tell me I'm materialistic.
I say you're either materialistic or you're a nudist."
-- Success magazine interview with Dexter Yager, 1994

Two natures beat within my breast.
The one is cursed, the other is blessed.
The one I love, the other I hate.
The one I feed will dominate.
- unknown U.S. Marine

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- unknown

An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine,
but because the people refuse to see it.
- James Michener, "SPACE"

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own,
& no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks,
for God sake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears,
buried alive under avalanches - that is the right & privilege of any free American.
- Edward Abbey

You can't walk a mile with one step. But you can with many steps.
- anonymous

A woman inspires us to do great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
- Dumas

All hat and no bull...
- anonymous

Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.
- From the book of Proverbs in the Bible, chapter 4, verse 7

Man has dominated man to his injury.
- From the book of Jeremiah in the Bible

History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave.
- Edmund Morris

"There are so many kinds of riches, and only one of them is gold."
- From the movie, "Good News"

Its ok to look back, just don't stare.
- unknown

A prayer...
The great earth and the great heaven, please give me wisdom, courage, knowledge and love. Amen
- anonymous

Fear is the mind killer.
- unknown

If you really want something you find a way. If you dont you find an excuse.
- unknown

Con-gress and Pro-gress
Congress starts with con, and is full of cons. Progress starts with pro,
and is nonexistent and believed to be unprofitable, although that is not true.
- unknown

Law at the expense the United States Constitution is unconstitutional.
- anonymous

Law at the expense of justice is criminal.
- unknown

In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A dream is unrehearsed.
- Yehudi Menuhin

What you treasure most is in your heart.
- Anonymous

Only the teachable learn.
- Anonymous

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- Eden Abhez

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
-Groucho Marx

Concerning Free Enterprise
* Communism: You own two cows. The government takes both and gives you part
of the milk.
* Socialism: You own two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your
neighbor.
* Jobism: Your employer owns two cows. He pays you a dime to milk the cows
and sells the milk for a dollar. He keeps both the cows and all the profits.
* Capitalism: You own two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
-- Burke Hedges

All man's gains are the fruit of venturing.
- Herodotus

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
-- Albert Einstein

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
- Voltaire

Things do come to those who wait, but only things left over from those that hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

All glory comes from daring to begin.
- Eugene F. Ware

The impossible is often the untried.
- Jim Goodwin

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare

He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
- Confucius

A man's mind, whether cultivated or neglected, must and will bring forth.
-James Allen

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin; 1903-1977

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
- Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality,
since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
- Benjamin Franklin

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Good judgement comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgement.
- Anonymous

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
- John Lilly

Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence
of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
- Anonymous

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

When the fight begins within himself, a man is worth something.
- Robert Browning

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.
- Mary Beard

If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
- William Feather

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a
monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
- Gerard

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
- Flower A. Newhouse

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- E. Hubbard

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your
own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Ambrose Bierce

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.
- Anonymous

Begin growing from where you are- not from where others think you ought to be by now.
- Steven Douglas Lawrence


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