Wisdom Quotes - Page 122

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It's the impeded stream that sings

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

Each man is led by his own liking.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.