Wisdom Quotes - Page 157

There are places on earth where we can catch a glimpse of heaven.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.

That all depends on what "is" is.

Politics make me sick

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

You have a dizzying intellect.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs