Wisdom Quotes - Page 137

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

God experiences Life through each of us, and we experience Life thanks to God.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Without knowing your Spirit you cannot know God.

The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.

Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.