Wisdom Quotes - Page 112

Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

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.

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

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.