Wisdom Quotes - Page 43

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that he will respond in what He chooses for you, and not what you choose for yourself, and at the time He chooses not the time you desire.

The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me. From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me. My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

The root of suffering is attachment

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer