Wisdom Quotes - Page 27

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.

The early bird catches the worm.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

We think we have to be a certain way because we have been taught to be a certain way. Actually the only truth is to keep quiet and see what happens from there. When I feel ill-tempered, when I feel sad, when I feel distant, it's just something that is happening. When I don't compare it to the past and project it into the future, then it's just something that is happening now. It's a way of dying now.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.