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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.
If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
Glory is for none but the learned, Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance. Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered, The ignorant are to the learned their enemies, Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever, Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive
OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Our life is our prayer. It is our gift to the universe, and the memories we leave behind when we someday exit this world will be our legacy to our loved ones. The best thing we can do for ourselves and everyone around us is to find our joy and share it!
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
There's no straight line to progress.
Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.
Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.
We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.
There are always more choices than you think.
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
Look twice before you leap.
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave ..." It seems to me that the same is true of the much older [geological stratigraphical] history of Europe.
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
There are no ordinary moments.
The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.
Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.