Wisdom Quotes - Page 83

The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

Love me, love my dog.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.