Wisdom Quotes - Page 75

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Anger is a short madness.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.