Wisdom Quotes - Page 156

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

There are always more choices than you think.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.

There's no straight line to progress.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

Re-energize your soul... Walk with Mother nature.