Wisdom Quotes - Page 53

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Toleration is the best religion.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.