Wisdom Quotes - Page 209

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Dejan Stojanovic

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)

Gregory Bassham

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Socrates

We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.

Wil Zeus

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

Confucius

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Plato

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Aberjhani

Life's managed, not cured.

Phillip C. McGraw

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?

Al Munoz

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Ken Kesey

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Epictetus

Imagine others complexly.

If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.

Benny Bellamacina

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Laurell K. Hamilton

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

E.A. Bucchianeri

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

I only know that I know nothing

Socrates

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Aberjhani

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Michel de Montaigne

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

Lisa Lutz

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

Epictetus

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There are no ordinary moments.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Ludwig van Beethoven

But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.

J.R. Ward

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

Terry Pratchett

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G.K. Chesterton

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

Christopher Hitchens

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