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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Related topics: Wisdom
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Love is what we were born with.
Fear is what we learned here.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- Marianne Williamson
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
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
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot lose your real treasure.
- Osho
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles.
Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge,
it repeats the same knowledge,
it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again.
No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence.
No-mind is the real way to live,
the real way to know, the real way to be.
- Osho
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
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