The Treasury of Vital Wisdom

By Paul Collins

Amassing wisdom from as early as the 5th century B.C.E. to the modern day has produced an intensely profound, yet simple and straight to the point collection of quotes from the greatest minds all over the world: from speakers, philosophers, authors, entrepreneurs, scientists, and more. It is like having an entire library of wisdom contained within a single book.  Below are just a few of the great minds included in this collection:

Aristotle, Theodore Roosevelt, Confucius, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, Kahlil Gibran, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maya Angelou, Leo Tolstoy, H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Benjamin Franklin, James Earl Jones, Horace, Winston Churchill, Voltaire, Benjamin Disraeli, Henry David Thoreau, Marcus Aurelius, Helen Keller, and Seneca.

A Selection Of Three Quotes From The Book:

"Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it." -Robert Brault

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Louis B. Smedes

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -Danish Proverb

This collection presents an opportunity to seek and meditate upon the advice from the greatest counselors who ever lived, to receive teaching from the most venerated philosophers, and a passage for listening to those who have long since passed away. Drawing from an extremely careful and meticulous search of quotes, more focused yet more profound than any source ever made, this compilation is designed to permanently improve the reader's mindset in every aspect of their life, creating an active and living asset for positive change in the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Collins
• Release date: May 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223659532

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To Jackson Bond,

The far-reaching effects of your kindness, resilience, talent, and humility inspired the creation of this book when I was thirteen, and is a continuing example of how one can inspire another to seek out the good in both the world and themselves, even without ever having met the author. My decision to start an extremely careful, meticulous, and profound collection of quotes was, by extension, influenced by your personality. This book proves that you bring out the best in other people, as it will continually affect others in a positive way.

Now it is my turn to see if I can indirectly inspire you.

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Contents

Wisdom

Success

Respect

Kindness

Love

Trust

Time

Forgiveness

Peace

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Wisdom

All of the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2.       Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

3.       Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace

4.       Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

5.       God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t - that should tell us something.

Eugene O’Neill

6.       Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

7.       It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

8.       Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin Fischer

9.       I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Antonio Gramsci

10.   The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Lao Tzu

11.   Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

12.   Wisdom is not a product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

13.   A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

14.   Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Chinese Proverb

15.   Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

Robert Brault

16.   We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benét

17.   I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

18.   When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Max Lerner

19.   The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B. C. Forbes

20.   A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Gian Carlo Menotti

21.   Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

22.   If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Theodore Roosevelt

23.   The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

C. S. Lewis

24.   We should not judge people by their excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry Ward Beecher

25.   Were we to fully understand the reasons for other people’s behavior, it would all make sense.

Sigmund Freud

26.   The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows all the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

27.   Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

28.   I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

Antonio Porchia

29.   It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert G. Ingersall

30.   The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

John A. Simone

31.   The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

32.   Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

Austin Dacey

33.   By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Horace Walpole

34.   The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Cicero

35.   It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Sam Levenson

36.   Do not go where a path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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