Wisdom Quotes - Page 115

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.

Philosophy is the highest music.

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'