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Quotes About Choice

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
~ Scott Adams
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
~ Will Durant
When in doubt, choose to live.
~ Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
~ Vernon Howard
If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart.
~ Carrie Newcomer
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
~ John Cheever
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
~ Samuel Johnson
Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.
~ Dan Millman
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
~ J. I. Packer
God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
~ Sigrid Undset, The Axe
Each man is led by his own liking.
~ Virgil
Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.
~ Shannon Hale, Princess Academy
May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
~ Sean Connery
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
~ Yevgeny Baratynsky
Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
~ Confucius
grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.
~ Silvia Tennenbaum
Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.
~ Anton Chekhov
Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
~ Austin O'Malley
Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.
~ Anthony Marais, Delusionism
Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
~ Vincent de Paul
It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.
~ Charles Caleb Colton