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Human Proverbs and Wisdom - Section 6
The experiences and thinking of fellow human beings, given for your reading enjoyment and edification. Many of the author’s names are not known, but will be added if they are made known.

 “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchill

“A am realistic - I expect miracles.” – Wayne Dyer

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it."  -- Joseph Goebbels 

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff

“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.” – George Burns

“If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.” – Sam Rayburn

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” – Calvin Coolidge

“I could never believe in a Jesus whom I could understand!” – Daniel Webster

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadsworth

“Difficult to conquer is oneself;  but when that is conquered, everything is conquered.”

“The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.”

“Nothing changes a human being faster than a deeper understanding of who God is.” – R.C. Sproul

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep.” – Wayne Dyer

“Reserve judgment on whatever is uncertain and assent only to clear precepts." – John Toland

“Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.” – Mark Twain

“The greatest enemy to faith is a lack of understanding God’s Word.” – Russ Plilar

“A happy marriage is a union of two good forgivers.”

“You don’t find happiness looking for it. You stumble over it on the road of duty.”

Coming together is a beginning
Keeping together is progress
Working together assures success.

“The only faith the Christian is called upon to fight is the fight of faith.” – Timothy/God

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C.S. Lewis

“A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree – or even, occasionally, the careless – may turn out to be half a life.” – Anna Quindlen

“What experience and history teach us is this – that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.” – G.W.F. Hegel

“The media can wreak great harm on the family when it offers an inadequate or even distorted vision of life, of the family itself and of religion and morality.” – Pope John Paul II

“Attack the evil that is within yourself; do not attack the evil that is in others.”-- Confucianism

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Theresa

“He who is afraid of doing too much, always does too little.”

“All are not saints that go to church.”
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty." – Edward R. Murrow

“A man has learned much who has learned how to die.”
“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” – Wayne Dyer

“To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Pain is temporary - Pride is forever.”

“No one will be in the Kingdom of God against his own will.” – Robert Schmid

"Just because the microphone in front of you amplifies your voice around the world, is no reason to think we have any more wisdom than we had when our voices could reach only from one end of the bar to the other." – Edward R. Murrow

“Thank goodness we don’t get all the government we pay for.” – Will Rogers

“Happiness is a voyage, not a destination. There is no better time to be happy than… now! Live and enjoy the moment.”

“Knowledge is of no value except as it is used. Not the hearers, but the doers of the law shall be justified. The command to study is for the purpose of putting the instruction into action that we may ‘show’ ourselves approved unto God…. Bible study is of value only in proportion as the knowledge revealed is incorporated into your character in actually living it.” – Herbert W. Armstrong

“Though one should conquer a million men on the battlefield, yet he, indeed, is the noblest victor who has conquered himself.” -- Buddhism

“The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.” – Friedrich Schiller

“Legends live forever.”

“Don’t sweat the small stuff.”

“Live in peace and peace will live in you.”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

He who knows others is wise;
He who knows himself is enlightened.
He who conquers others has physical strength;
He who conquers himself is strong. – Tao Te Ching
"All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man" – Edward R. Murrow

“What we get, we can make a living. What we give, we can make a life.”
“Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scale.” – Paul Sweeney

“Doesn't matter what you came with....its what you're leaving with that counts.”

“Your mind transcends limitations.” – Wayne Dyer

“We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities.”

“I want to see the culture flooded with knowledgeable and articulate Christians.” – R.C. Sproul

“It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend that they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one and that one is three.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.” – D.H. Lawrence

“Those who love wisdom must be inquirers into many things indeed.” – Heraclitus

“Yes, doctrine divides, but without doctrine there would be no gospel.”

“Walk Quietly Through Life But Always Carry A Big Stick”

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”

“Faithful are wounds of a friend”

“The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race.”

“We should not let the grass grow on the path of friendship.” – Marie Geoffrin

“Every truly great accomplishment is at first impossible.”

“Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” – Fanny Grosby

“Man proposes, and God disposes.” – Luovico Ariosto

"You should love truth more than yourself, but your neighbor more than truth". – Romain Rolland

“There is no smaller package then a man wrapped up in himself.”
"The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think -- that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America." – Edward R. Murrow

“Be open to learning new lessons even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.” – Ellen Degeneres

“Sin is not bad because it is forbidden. It is forbidden because it is bad.”

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain

“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Speech is civilization itself. The word preserves contact. It is silence which isolates.” – Thomas Mann

“ALL gave some. Some gave ALL”

“Food grows, where water flows”

“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.” – Wayne Dyer

“Every one’s quick to blame the alien.” – Aeschylus

“Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price – only value.” – Bel Kaufman

“Don’t let time govern the experience. Let the experience govern the time.”

“Bible study without prayer is atheism.”

“JOY – Jesus first; Others second; You third.”

“A life without risk is a life not worth living.”

“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi

“Who is strong?  He who controls his passions.” -- Judaism

“No problem is to big to run away from.”

“You can have knowledge without wisdom, but you can not have wisdom without knowledge.”

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.” – Carl Schurz

“One of the weaknesses of the Church to-day is – put it bluntly – that Christians are not making enough of Jesus Christ.” – T.R. Glover

“That man is disciplined and happy who can prevail over the turmoil that springs from desire and anger, here on earth, before he leaves his body.” -- Hinduism

“It is marvelous to be honest, but it is also very important to be right!”
“The difficult jobs we do right away. The impossible ones take a little longer.”

“If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” – H.L. Mencken

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” -- Plato

“With the conquest of my mind, I have conquered the whole world.” --  Sikhism

“Only the insecure strive for security.” – Wayne Dyer

“Foolishness is the birthright of all human beings.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“But whatever we have less or more, always thank we God therefore.”

“The world is so churchy and the church is so worldly, that it is hard to find any difference.”

“One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to surmount a fear every day. It will make you stronger, happier.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am not worried about what I do not know in the Bible. I am worried about what I do know.” – Mark Twain
"People may forgive, but they never forget"
"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility." – Edward R Murrow
“Loneliness is the penalty of leadership.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice. -- Meister Eckhart

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect, It means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfection.”

“It’s a rare person who can take care of HEARTS while also taking care of business.”

“You can not believe everything you hear, but you can repeat it.”

“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.” – Wayne Dyer

“Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open.” – Arnold Glasow

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Before you desire to control the universe, you must first be able to completely control yourself.” -- Sun Myung Moon

“The reward of doing Mitzvot (goodness, God’s commandments) are the Mitzvot themselves.” –  Mishnah

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” – Herbert Spencer

“As long as there are questions – there is hope.” – Robert Schmid

“When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Many people lose the small joys….in the hope of big happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck

“The future belongs to those who BELIEVE in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” – Wayne Dyer

“He who congers himself, congers the world.”

“Man makes a harness for his beast; all the more should he make one for the beast within himself, his evil desire.” – Talmud

“Doesn't matter what you came with....its what you're leaving with that counts.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” – Adam Smith

“We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.” – Wayne Dyer

“When you are inspired….dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive.” --  Patajali

“I call on you not to hate because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors to thinking.” – Saddam Hussein.

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