Wisdom Quotes - Page 73

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Imagination, Wisdom

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and smile.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.