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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Individuality is freedom lived.
Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.
Kundalini is your Mother. She has been with you for ages and She has been waiting for this day when you could get your Realization.
When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.
You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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.
Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.
Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
To know the world, one must construct it
A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.
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.
All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.
Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.
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.
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.
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.
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
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.
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.
The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.
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.
You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
After wisdom comes wit.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.