Wisdom Quotes - Page 74

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

Conscience is God present in man.

When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation.