Wisdom Quotes - Page 34

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Little by little, one travels far

If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him!

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.