Wisdom Quotes - Page 82

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the "slave state" disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the two is not intuitive. There is required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an inference, if indeed it be drawn by reasoning and argument. What that medium is, I must confess, passes my comprehension; and it is incumbent on those to produce it, who assert that it really exists, and is the origin of all our conclusions concerning matter of fact.