Wisdom Quotes - Page 57

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.

A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.

Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.

Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you... Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeing horseman in the field of battle.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!