Wisdom Quotes - Page 60

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Conventionality is not morality.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.