Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 2

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

Reality is where your consciousness is located

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.