Wisdom Quotes - Page 71

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Strike while the iron is hot.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Only the wounded physician heals.

The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.