Wisdom Quotes - Page 54

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound. You will know every being, look in the eyes of every being, and you know, you will recognize yourself. These things are not poetry. They are simple truths. You will experience them. In your heart they will be confirmed.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.