Wisdom Quotes - Page 141

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

Anger manages everything badly.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart