Wisdom Quotes - Page 86

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

Only a loser finds it impossible to accept a temporary setback. A winner asks why.

There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow.

The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.