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Providing a quote a day from the world’s most acclaimed thinkers and artists, Words of Wisdom is inspiring, empowering and though-provoking. Let the words of such renowned figures as Buddha, Aldous Huxley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Hawking, Mark Twain, C. S. Lewis, and many more inspire you... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - “The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” —Benjamin Disraeli
- - “Wisdom begins in wonder.” —Socrates
- - "To Know oneself is enlightenment." --Tao Te Ching
Summary edit
With a unique insight for each calendar day of the year, the reader will discover in the this book nuggets of wisdom from such luminaries as Henry David Thoreau, Einstein, Buddha, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Carl Jung, Mark Twain, Confucius, Martin Luther King, Jr., Virginia Woolf,... read more
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Add a description of this character.
- Plato
- Albert Einstein
- St. Francis of Assisi
- James Thurber
- Buddha
- Michelangelo
- Marcel Proust
- Socrates
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Jalaluddin Rumi
- Henry David Thoreau
- Sun-Tzu
- Mark Twain
- johann-wolfgang-von-goethe
- C. S. Lewis
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Henrik Ibsen
- Diane Ackerman
- Oscar Wilde
- Cicero
- Virginia Woolf
- Michel de Montaigne
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Herman Hesse
- Anne Frank
- Ramakrishna
- Franz Kafka
- Carl Jung
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Oscar Wilde
- Richard Feynman
- Marcus Aurelius
- Saint Augustine
Quotes edit
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““Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”—Cicero Since advice is based on experience and our own experiences are unique, then it follows that our most sage advice will come when we take counsel with ourselves. All of us at times seek the advice and counsel of friends and confidants, discuss with them our trials and tribulations and seek their guidance. Honestly, though, don't we ask for advice so as to confirm or get approval for whatever it is that we have decided? In the main, aren't we seeking high and low for a "yes"? This seems to be the case. Whether for good or ill we tend to act on our own counsel, despite the approval or the misgivings of others, and this is as it should be. After all, each of us reaps the ripe or bitter fruit of our own actions.”
Cicero -
““To ask the hard questions is simple.”—W. H. Auden But to find the difficult answers is another matter entirely. Perhaps this is because there are no definitive answers as such, but only ways of living as different and varied as people themselves. We must find the curiosity and courage within ourselves to ask the hard questions, and then have the passion to find the answers.One thing is for sure, my answer is not your answer, and yesterday’s answer may not suffice for today’s question.Inquire, and then inquire again, and know that sometimes the whispering wind may carry to you an answer or two.”
W.H. Auden
First Sentence edit
“It is a good thing to read books of quotations, the quotations when engraved on the memory give you good thoughts.” —Winston Churchill
Authors & Contributors edit
- Scott Gallagher (Author)
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- Dewey: 158
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