The wisdom quotes on this page are all from sources and authors surnames T and U, (at the moment there are none for U). The other pages are: A, B, C & D, E & F, G & H, I – L, M, N – Q, R & S, V – Z. There is also a page of Wisdom Sayings and a condensed page of 100 Inspirational Words Of Wisdom (a selection from all of the wisdom pages.)
Wisdom Quotes: T
Tao Te Ching
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise, therefore it is near the eternal.
Anna Taylor
Everything I hope to be.. I already am.
Everything I hope to do.. I already can.
Everything I hope to have.. I already do.
Everything you see in me.. Is a reflection of you.
Anna Taylor
You are a Divine Being connected to a constant flow of love and wisdom. Trust your magnificence.
Terence c. 190BC – 159BC
There are as many opinions as there are people.. Each has his own correct way.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.
We only have today.. Let us begin.
Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of existence.
Nancy Thayer
It’s never too late in fiction or in life to revise.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
All men are children, and of one family.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
As a single footstep will not make a path on the Earth, so a single thought will not make a single pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the Universe will be simpler.
Beauty is where it is perceived.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
Being is.. the great explainer.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
It is not enough to be busy. The question is.. What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
It takes two to speak truth.. One to speak and another to listen.
Man emulates Earth.
Earth emulates Heaven.
Heaven emulates The Way.
The Way emulates Nature.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
Many men go fishing all of their lives.. Without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Men are not so much the keepers of herds, as herds are the keepers of men.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.
That government is best which governs the least.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Thaw, with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
The fault finder will find faults even in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
The man who goes alone can start today. But he who travels with another, must wait till that other is ready.
The meeting of two eternities, the past and the future.. Is precisely the present moment.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more – a man sees only what concerns him.
There is no beginning too small.
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know.. That is true knowledge.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Paul Tillich 1886 – 1965
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Tilopa 988 – 1069
Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing.
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Not all who wander… are lost.
Eckhart Tolle 1948
Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness, instead of mental noise, is the greatest gift you can offer the Universe.
You create a good future by creating a good present.
You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Thomas Traherne 1636 – 1674
As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.
Alexandra Trentor
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.
TV
Fringe
Real is just a matter of perception.
TV
Good Witch
Sometimes its in the quiet that we hear the loudest things.
We all live on in the differences we make.
TV
Life In Pieces
Life is about these moments, these pieces of time, these slices of life that flash by.. But they stay in your heart forever.
TV
Star Trek Next Generation
Space and time and thought aren’t the separate things they appear to be.
There are things we do not understand and yet they exist non the less.
TV
Star Trek Next Generation
Thought is the basis of reality. The energy of thought, to put it in your terms, is very powerful.
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody has said it before him.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.
Great people make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Asha Tyson
Your journey has moulded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the NOW. And Now is the right time.
Lao Tzu 600BC
All things in the world come from Being. And Being comes from non-being.
Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Be really whole.. And all things will come to you.
By letting go… it all gets done.
Contentment is the greatest treasure. Health is the greatest possession. Confidence is the greatest friend.
He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu 600BC
I thought I knew you, but it was only me. The you that you truly are is not the you I see. My mind has formed your image, but you have already travelled on. I want to see only you, but I see you through me.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.
Let it be still.. And it will gradually become clear.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Nature does not hurry… Yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu 600BC
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Silence is a source of great strength.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
The Sage sees the world as an expansion of his own self. So what need has he to accumulate things?
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
To become learned.. Each day add something.
To become enlightened.. Each day drop something.
To lead people.. Walk behind them.
To see things in the seed.. That is genius.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and Earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
