Wisdom Quotes - Page 39

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but as a place of reverence and worship, where every tree, rock and waterhole had significance, you will get some understanding of the importance of land to indigenous people.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

See things from the boy's point of view.

If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.