Wisdom Quotes - Page 106

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.

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

There is no greater burden than great potential.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

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

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

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.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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.