Wisdom Quotes - Page 165

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.

Never make a move until you find yourself making it, because it might be too soon. It's always better to wait. Whenever you're not sure, wait, and in time you'll find yourself doing it. To act before then would be a mistake.

I am not the river I am the net.

Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.