Top 100 Wisdom Quotes

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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

2

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

3

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

4

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

5

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

6

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

7

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

8

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

9

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.

10

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

11

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

12

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

13

Wise men still seek Him today.

Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the ...14

Unless and until your Sahasrara is open, all the blessings of the Divine Power cannot come to you.

15

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

16

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

17

Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

18

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

19

Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.

20

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

21

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

22

Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt

23

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

24

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

25

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

26

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

27

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.

28

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

29

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

30

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

31

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

32

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

33

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

34

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

35

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.

36

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

37

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

38

...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

39

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

40

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

41

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

42

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.

43

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

44

Love me, love my dog.

45

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

46

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

47

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

48

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

49

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.

50

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.

51

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

52

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

53

The absent are easily refuted.

54

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

55

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

56

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

57

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

58

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.

59

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

60

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

61

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

62

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

63

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

64

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

65

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

66

We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.

67

There is no greater burden than great potential.

68

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

69

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

70

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

71

Conventionality is not morality.

72

Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.

73

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

74

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

75

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.

76

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.

77

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.

78

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.

79

Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.

80

There are no ordinary moments.

81

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

82

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

83

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

84

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

85

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

86

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.

87

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.

88

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

89

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

90

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

91

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

92

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.

93

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

94

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

95

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

96

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

97

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

98

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

99

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

100

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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