Wisdom Quotes - Page 99

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

Hit the nail on the head.

Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means of production... This has happened in some companies through ESOPs. Successful approaches of this sort would pay dividends in terms of employee commitment and morale. And they would not deprive anyone of his present holdings since they are based on future growth.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from princes: a submission to rule, which, through sumptuary laws on food and drink, through conscription, through a cast-iron system of compulsory instruction for all on State ordered lines, and through a State examination at the gate of every profession, has almost killed the citizen's power to react upon that which controls him, and has almost destroyed that variety which is the mark of life.

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.