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It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside.
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
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.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.
Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Honesty is the best policy.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.
To know the world, one must construct it
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.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.
Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.
O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.
SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.
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.
What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
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.
He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more.
... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.
O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.
Great changes are about to take place in the whole universe. It will not be a comfortable time. It is important that each one has no fear, no concern, knowing that this great upheaval is necessary before the next step can be taken.
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.
You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance
I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion
Has every oyster a different taste?
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich
