Wisdom Quotes - Page 100

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

His bark is worse than his bite.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

What you are looking for is what is looking.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

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.

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

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

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.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

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.

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.