Wisdom Quotes - Page 33

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.