Wisdom Quotes - Page 22

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.