Wisdom Quotes - Page 187

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

Ravi Ravindra

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

Billie Jean King

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony.

William Ellery Channing

To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

Sengcan

Whoever is full of wisdom is naturally compassionate; in fact we recognize that someone has gained spiritual wisdom by seeing their compassionate behavior. . . . Individuals and countries with power need to develop wisdom and compassion, for without these attributes, there is a danger that the power will be used to oppress and exploit others. (31)

Ravi Ravindra

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown.

Vera Nazarian

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those that are wicked, to reclaim them, without the help of the knowledge of evil.

Francis Bacon

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Fernando Pessoa

Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.

Oakley Hall

When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one.

Toba Beta

The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted them, the influences that warped them. And when you forgot yourself and saw the others with pitying comprehension, saw their tortured motives, a white, healing peace descended upon you. Your betrayal became an impersonal one, like a bridge giving way when you crossed it, lightning, a motor collision--you were in the way and you were damaged--that was all. It wasn't meant for you. When you understood, you were released into a new freedom and wisdom.

Mary Schumann

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

I learned from Jurassic Park that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

Christopher C. Starr

Make your ideal your new real.

Derek Padula

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Herman Melville

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

Osho

Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

Deepak Chopra

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Carson McCullers

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

Jess C. Scott

Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.

Fadi Hattendorf

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

Osho

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

T.F. Hodge

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

Jennifer Donnelly

I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.

Malinda Lo

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.

T.H. White

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

Mark Twain

one should never assume anything

Dick Francis

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

L. Quick

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.

Napoleon Hill

Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.

Cambria Hebert

Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women

Ali R.A

Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return.

Ali R.A

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

C.S. Lewis

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

John Piper

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

Ueda Akinari

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Eleanor Brown

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Gary L. Francione

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are

Harold S. Kushner

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

Kelli Jae Baeli

Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.

Matthew Goldfinger

The good and wise lead quite lives

Euripides

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans.By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation.

Gary L. Francione

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so.At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.

Gary L. Francione

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.

Gary L. Francione

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

Robin Macnaughton

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

Eric T. Benoit

Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

Suzy Kassem

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match

Joshua Caleb

Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

Suzy Kassem

L’arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu’ils ont perdu la veille, ils s’apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.

Abhijit Naskar

If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

C.S. Lewis

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

Amit Ray

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