NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 173

·       “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”—Benjamin Franklin

• ·       "[Those] who prefer optimistic illusions to reality can never become wise. Only those who face facts and adjust them to ideals can achieve wisdom."
  ·       “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”—William Butler Yeats
  ·       "When religion is wholly spiritual in motive, it makes all life more worth while, filling it with high purposes, dignifying it with transcendent values, inspiring it with superb motives, all the while comforting the human soul with a sublime and sustaining hope."
  ·       “Education breeds confidence.”—Confucius
  ·       "You mortals now living on Urantia who may aspire to Paradise attainment and finaliter status should understand that such a destiny is only realizable because you are in and of the Supreme, hence are participants in the cycle of the growth of the Supreme."
  ·       If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. – Anita Koddick
  ·       Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy. – Jimmy Spithill
  ·       Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
  ·       Constant use will wear down anything, especially friends.
  ·       "The process of planetary evolution is orderly and controlled. The development of higher organisms from lower groupings of life is not accidental."
  ·       This is a new day. I begin anew and claim and create all that is good. — Louise Hay
  ·       And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world,
  instead of in my mind alone.