Truisms – Words To Live By

Life is a learning process. We will learn until our last breath, and not have learned all, or enough. However, if we look to the words and experiences of the people who have gone on before us, the gurus and sages... or those who had been through life’s hard knocks, we might be able to speed up our learning process, and at the same time, avoid some heartbreaks and difficult moments.

You can start with this selection of words of wisdom. There is no time to lose.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin

Knowing when to walk away, is wisdom. Being able to, is courage. Walking away with your head held high is dignity. - Unknown

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Confucius

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. - Muriel Spark

If all the year were playing holidays; to sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. - Jane Wells

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. - Thomas Browne

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion. - Lin-Chi

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies

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