Wisdom Quotes - Page 163

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating

Political power without economic power is sterile.

The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will rivet the Black man to the least remunerative section of the economy forever. The best such prospects offer are the dissatisfactions of blue-collar life. The big money ain't in pumping rationed gas in an Amoco station leased in your very own name, but in having stock in Exxon.

It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.

The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.