#wisdom

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#experience

It's not just about the money. It's about fairness, and equality, and how profoundly our political culture is infused with the imperatives to keep us divided on the most fundamental bases ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#freedom #inspirational #life #politics #power

Success is not about your techniques, it’s not solely about the wisdom or the knowledge you have, it’s about your mindset and your actions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#knowledge #mindset #success #wisdom #experience

[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind. ↗

— Larry Dossey

#mindfulness #nature #science #wisdom #experience

Stick on your originality, yes I know few people will call you a boring person but millions will fall in love with you because of your authenticity. ↗

— Euginia Herlihy

#experience

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#wealth #wisdom #experience

There are certain things in life that no one can teach us. We must experience many situations for ourselves in order to better understand what it means to be human. ↗

— Donna Labermeier

#experience

he is not a member of us who does not show the mercy to smaller than him and respect to the older. ↗

— Anonymous

#faith

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. ↗

— M.M. Kaye

#common-sense #m-m-kaye #wisdom #common-sense

To the knights of faith nobody believes. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #faith #knights #literature