Wisdom Quotes - Page 113

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

It pays to be prepared.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.