Wisdom Quotes - Page 149

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened.

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.

[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish.

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

Since you know the means of getting better, in the name of God, make use of them. Do not take on anything beyond your strength, do not be anxious, do not take things too much to heart, go gently, do not work too long or too hard.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

We are for religion against the religions.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is His love, doing justice to its own exigencies, and renewing the gift which we had failed to accept.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.