Wisdom Quotes - Page 62

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.

Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

All's well that ends well.