Wisdom Quotes - Page 184

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

John Kenneth Galbraith

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

Ralph Alfred Habas

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

Confucius

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

Confucius

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

William Shakespeare

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.

Sophocles

... dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos...

Christopher Rice

The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.

Ralph Alfred Habas

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Kim Stanley Robinson

The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending.

No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.

Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style

Cindy Ann Peterson

One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

Sengcan

For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

Sengcan

When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

Sengcan

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

Anne Rice

...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?

‎your first thought would send the power of Quantum physics into a hive of activity. your first thought, would inevitably become the destiny of the day

We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation

François de La Rochefoucauld

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.

We will never be more that we have been destined to be!

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie.

How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.“The same way a man does."“Which is?"Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. “Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it...

Patricia Grasso

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

King Solomon's life reminds meof wisdom, wealth, women, woes.

Toba Beta

Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Benjamin Franklin

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

Melissa Bradley

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

C.P. Snow

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk.

Millard Johnson

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

Jefferson Smith

Only those who row the boat make waves

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.

The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.

Georges Clémenceau

the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved

Don’t become bigoted about bigots.

Life is easy. We make it hard.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte.

Haruki Murakami

There is no dishonor in wisdom.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond?

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.

Murasaki Shikibu

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth.

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 3 to raise the middle finger.

Mariel

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.

John Holt

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