Wisdom Quotes - Page 143

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.

If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.