words of wisdom
 
 

 

a few words of wisdom...

I think of music as being beyond opinions.
-Jorge Luis Borges

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
-Albert Einstein

Talk sensibly to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-Epicurus the Sage

While there's breath, there's hope.
-Marcheta Evans

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-Henry Ford

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
-Hermann Hesse

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-Aldous Huxley

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
-John F. Kennedy

Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?
-Master Obi Wan Kenobi

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
-John Lennon

I must say that I find television very educational- the minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
-Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
-Karl Marx

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
-Herman Melville

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
-Mary Pettibone Poole

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
-Theodore Giesel (that's Dr. Seuss)

The unexamined life is not worth living.
-Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by others' writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
-Socrates

 
             

THIS ABOVE ALL: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE - Shakespeare
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