Wisdom Quotes - Page 28

There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Sleep is the best meditation.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.