Wisdom Quotes - Page 168

Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.

Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow.

The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.

We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System, Congress spoke about the country's need for "an elastic currency." Since then, Congress has passed the Full Employment Act, declaring its general intention to promote "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." But it has never directly counseled the Federal Reserve.

The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.

Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

There are no athiests in foxholes.

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.

We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.