Wisdom Quotes - Page 47

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Honesty is the best policy.

The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.