Wisdom Quotes - Page 69

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist," I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell that beautiful perfume; they follow that smell. That perfume creates a yearning in their hearts for their Lord, and as a result the sincere believers increase their pace, efforts and devotions.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.