Wisdom Quotes - Page 90

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

It all ends in tears anyway.

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

The world is as you are.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.