Wisdom Quotes - Page 118

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Anxious care is out of place in a heavenly Father's presence.

You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and that's why they are the way they are. But I do think about it whenever I get in contact with my fans. I know this may be the only time they'll ever meet me. I try to take advantage of that moment and be kind and grateful.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the foundation stones upon which this nation and its free enterprise system has been built and has prospered. We feel that private property rights and human rights are inseparable and indivisible. Only in those nations that guarantee the right of ownership of private property as basic and sacred under their law is there any recognition of human rights.

I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

If you own a rug you own too much.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Never laugh at live dragons.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.