Wisdom Quotes - Page 114

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Don't believe everything you think.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.

Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling 'I am'. Whatever you think, say, or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Luck never made a man wise.