Advice Quotes

Strive to be comfortable in chaos and complexity. Be as a Shaman who walks in many worlds. Try to feel strong and whole and at home in a world of diversity.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. - Ancient Indian Proverb

Think for yourself. Whatever is happening at the moment, try to think for your self. - Jean Riboud

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. - Dorothy L. Sayers

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried. - Frank Tyger

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. - Christopher Wren

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandi

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started....the fate of humanity is in his hands. - Abraham Lincoln

Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. - Jesse Lee Bennett

Life is not a spectator sport. . . . If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. - Jackie Robinson

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent. - Jacob Neusner

If I had read as much as other men, I would have known no more than they. - Thomas Hobbes

Every man who know how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. - Aldous Huxley

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. - Tolstoy

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. - Paul Valery.

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." � Confucius

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. " -- George Bernard Shaw, From the play Man and Superman (1903)

"Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles." � Anonymous, Arabic Proverb

"Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play With the severity of fate." -- John Ford, From The Broken Heart (1633)

"In case signals can neither be seen nor perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy. " -- Horatio Nelson, From a memorandum to the fleet of Cadiz, October 9, 1805.

"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!" -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, From the book The Gay Science (1882)

"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody." -- Agatha Christie, From the novel Endless Night (1967).

"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. " � Anonymous

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument. - William McAdoo

Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. - Thomas B. Macaulay

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. - Robert Southey

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. - Duke of Wellington

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. Thomas Blount

I am dying with the help of too many physicians. - Alexander the Great

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time. - Marcel Proust.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion. - Thomas Jefferson

He that never changes his opinion, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow that he is today. - Tyron Edwards

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes when they do. - Malcolm Forbes

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles. - Benjamin Franklin

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental. - Gotthold Lessing

How difficult it is to persuade a man to reason against his interest; though he is convinced that equity is against him. - John Trusler

To think is to differ. - Clarence Darrow

It's more fun to arrive at a conclusion that to justify it. - Malcom Forbes

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long. - Charles W. Eliot

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. - Mao Tse-Tung

Obvious thinking commonly lead to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions. - Humphrey B. Neil

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lipman

The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool. - Frank A. Garbutt

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. - William Ralph Inge

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures. - Harry A. Overstreet

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt. - Antoinette Deshoulieres

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. - Thomas Carlyle

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. - Jeremy Taylor

Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent. - Robert Bernstein

What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent idiocy. - Marie Corelli

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith

The only ones among you who will truly be happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ~ Albert Schweitzer

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness; a glass of wine, a roasted chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. ~Nikos Kazantzakis

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change ... ~Viktor Frankl

This is my true joy in life--being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernad Shaw

Look at every path closely and deliberately...Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. ~Carlos Castaneda

If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" -- the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life -- doors will open up...if you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss, whether you have money or not. ~Joseph Campbell

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities. ~Abraham Maslow

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty. ~Tim Sandlin

All the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again ... and so you had better take what time there is and be very thankful for it. ~Ernest Hemingway

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. ~Leo Buscaglia

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor. ~Leo Buscaglia

When you feel safe enough to try something which required risk, it'll probably be too late. ~N.H. Goud

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love. ~Abraham Maslow

Life streamed through him in a splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstacy and pour forth generously over the world. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist... ~Jack London

Every single man is a new thing in the world, and is called upon to fulfill his particularity in this world. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecidented and never recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved. ~Martin Buber

It's not the critic who counts....The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena....And, who, while daring greatly, spends himself in a worthy cause so that his place may never be among those cold and timid souls who have known neither victory nor defeat. ~Theodore Roosevelt

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. ~Henry Thoreau

Experience is, for me, the highest authority....No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth... ~Carl Rogers