Wisdom Quotes - Page 177

A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious.

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.

...the more I felt that perhaps believing in fairies was more important than seeing them. In seeing, there is often question and doubt.

Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.

El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

Patience is a power unto itself.

Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.

It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.

Never leap into battle, when you may come quietly to victory at a walk.

Gregory S. Close

A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way.

Ana Claudia Antunes

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Mos Def

Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.

Terbang sendirian tinggi di udarakaulah Sang Helang... milik angkasarayabukan milik pepohonan... tempat engkau melepaskan lelah

A.D. Rahman Ahmad

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again

Richard L. Ratliff

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. But that time has passed.

You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

You can build a business, or you can run it, but there’s only two ways it can be run, you can run it straight, or you can run it into the ground.

John Adrian Robinson

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.

The world you are in –Is the true hell.The journey to Truth itselfIs what quickens the heart to become lighter.The lighter the heart, the purer it is.The purer the heart, the closer to light it becomes.And the heavier the heart,The more chained to this hellIt will remain.

Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Today it is cheaper to start a business than tomorrow.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile! What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth? For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!There is nothing better for people than to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in their work.

Solomon

Humility is the courage to be honest with yourself and those around you.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.

Gabrielle Zevin

He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. "At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. "And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope.

Lloyd Alexander

The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.

When we get too comfortable in our routine we stop challenging ourselves. Complacency is the silent dream killer.

We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?

Never get into a pissin' contest with a skunk." Mary Jo R.

Timothy G. Cameron

Faith in God is the fruit of the earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who value wisdom know that when you give people something for nothing, you produce ungrateful people; that when you obscure the differences between men and women, you end up with many aimless men and angry women; that when you give children “self-esteem” without their earning it, you produce narcissists who enter adulthood often incapable of empathy and of handling life; that if you do not destroy evil, it will proliferate; and that if you are kind to the cruel, you will end up being cruel to the kind. If you really want goodness to prevail, wisdom is a key to unlocking it. The heart is not.

D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.

Wonders encircled the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.

Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities were Syl Anagist. All languages had become Sylanagistine. But there were none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them - even if, in truth, their victims couldn't care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.

If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.

He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true wisdom is a thing that lies far deeper than consciousness. The chief gain of increased consciousness is that it unveils an ever-loftier unconsciousness, on whose heights do the sources lie of the purest wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom that springs up aloft comes ever the nearer to love. Love is the food of wisdom; wisdom the food of love; a circle of light within which those who love, clasp the hands of those who are wise.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Mungu hatakubali kuwa na mtu katika ufalme wake ambaye hatakubali kutawaliwa naye. Usikubali kutawaliwa na Ibilisi, kubali kutawaliwa na Mungu. Ni jukumu letu kuanza kuishi sasa kama vile tutakavyoishi mbinguni. Shetani anataka uwe na hekima ya duniani ili akupumbaze. Lakini hofu ya Mungu ndiyo msingi wa hekima ya kweli. Ukitaka asikupumbaze, pokea Roho ya Mungu kwa kubatizwa. Ukiipokea Roho ya Mungu utajua mambo ya Mungu, ambayo dunia haiwezi kujua.

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

It is our harsh fate on earth that body and soul should be so closely bound together; that the soul should have to drag the body along, should be exposed to its vicissitudes, should even respond to them. This primal curse has always weighed heavily upon us; but how much more heavily under a religious law which compels us to endure this outrageous condition; which will not permit our honor, when it is imperiled, to save itself by casting aside the body, and seeking refuge in the world of the spirit!

Influence is everything. One wrong influence can single handedly destroy every bit of your innocence and innocence is the root of all wisdom.

John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)

...just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not the truth...

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