Wisdom Quotes - Page 127

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.

As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy, pay for, and employ in their lives the non-human factor of production, capital.

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

The farther you go, the less you know.

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.