Wisdom Quotes - Page 169

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

Revenge is the most destructive emotion. Know that retribution against someone who has hurt you will not neutralise the bitterness of your pain. It will eat away at your very being. Be positive and remember the past cannot be changed.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

The superfluous is very necessary.

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and a somewhat ineffective way of teaching, since the students rely on their notes and do not exercise either their judgment or their memory, In this way, their minds remain empty while they pile up papers which they will perhaps never look at again.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and if we are not, we already have too many houses anyway, and can hardly fill the few we have.

Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.

...a great good is worth being long desired.

Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do.

Just watching Robert De Niro was all the words of wisdom I really needed.