Wisdom Quotes - Page 42

From my college courses and my reading I knew the various names that came at the end of a line of questions or were placed as periods to bafflement: the First Cause, the First Mover, the Life Force, the Universal Mind, the First Principle, the Unmoved Mover, even Providence. I too had used those names in arguing with others, and with myself, trying to explain the world to myself. And now I saw that those names explained nothing. They were of no more use than Evolution or Natural Selection or Nature or The Big Bang of these later days. All such names do is catch us within the length and breadth of our own thoughts and our own bewilderment. Though I knew the temptation of simple reason, to know nothing that can't be proved, still I supposed that those were not the right names.I imagined that the right name might be Father, and I imagined all that that name would imply: the love, the compassion, the taking offense, the disappointment, the anger, the bearing of wounds, the weeping of tears, the forgiveness, the suffering unto death. If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down into the world? Could I not see how it might, because it could know its creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?Yes. I could imagine a Father who is yet like a mother hen spreading her wings before the storm or in the dusk before the dark night for the little ones of Port William to come in under, some of whom do, and some do not. I could imagine Port William riding its humble wave through time under the sky, its little flames of wakefulness lighting and going out, its lives passing through birth, pleasure, sufferning, and death. I could imagine God looking down upon it, its lives living by His spirit, breathing by His breath, knowing by His light, but each life living also (inescapably) by its own will--His own body given to be broken.

Wendell Berry

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

To give value to others, you have to begin by valuing yourself.

Tim Fargo

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

Farley Maglaya

When all help is stopped, when your loved ones started doubting your competence, when failure seems almost confirmed, but no matter what, if you make one more attempt, that final step will fetch you the victory.

Amit Kalantri

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

Idries Shah

There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed. Wait until the chains are broken—until dungeons are not regarded as temples. Wait until solemnity is not mistaken for wisdom—until mental cowardice ceases to be known as reverence. Wait until the living are considered the equals of the dead—until the cradle takes precedence of the coffin. Wait until what we know can be spoken without regard to what others may believe. Wait until teachers take the place of preachers—until followers become investigators. Wait until the world is free before you write a

Robert G. Ingersoll

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.

Paul Torday

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Idries Shah

As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Your limitations are largely programming instilled by others that you choose to believe.

Gary Hopkins

God is like an umbrella of illusion and belief, In rainy days we use him, in sunny days we forget him.

Debasish Mridha

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

Criss Jami

You have to take this with you too,” she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. “My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her.

Zack Love

Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do.

Ashish Patel

Where once there was a void,Now at least there are Seeds of splendour,Becalmed belief for another time.

Scott Hastie

Only absurdities need to be defended. Truth speaks for itself.

Stefan Emunds

Morality is always prejudicial.

Stefan Emunds

We have nothing to lose in this life: We came naked into the world and we will exit naked.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I live every day as if I can die any moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we grow in faith, the more we grow in love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If we love God, we will love another. Love is God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are only mortal flesh.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Beyond the visible is invisible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is a sacred gift from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.

Sara Ware Bassett

An enduring belief in light rises above the darkness of night.

Margo Kelly

Your Personal identity created by the experiences of the past, simply floats on the awareness field of the mind, while all the important tasks of life, is performed by the subtle strings of the spirit.

Roshan Sharma

Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

You have to choose your future regrets.

Christopher Hitchens

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Sandra Chami Kassis

When we walk with knowledge in our present and wisdom from our past we are able to discern how to prepare for tomorrow". HS/el

Evinda Lepins

My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

Jaeda DeWalt

Nature … has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has likewise cut off all communication betwixt the other planets, and betwixt the different systems.… We observe, in all of them, enough to raise our curiosity, but not to satisfy it … It does not appear to be suitable to the wisdom that shines throughout all nature, to suppose that we should see so far, and have our curiosity so much raised … only to be disappointed at the end … This, therefore, naturally leads us to consider our present state as only the dawn or beginning of our existence, and as a state of preparation or probation for farther advancement.…

Colin Maclaurin

If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for the rest of the time to come.

Amit Kalantri

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

Amit Kalantri

What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with tomorrow.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

Isabelle Rowan

When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future.

Bryant McGill

Your attitudes are literally seeds for the growing of your future self.

Bryant McGill

This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.

Debasish Mridha

If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways.

Debasish Mridha

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.

Debasish Mridha

My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.

Debasish Mridha

If you want to be happy in the future, be happy now.

Debasish Mridha

The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education.

Debasish Mridha

The future will be bright, if you play it right!

Debasish Mridha

I don’t know what to do with my future.

Igor Henrique

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens. Wisdom grows not by sitting in peace and solitude in meditation, but by confronting the storms of the past, and studying what triggered them so that we can prevent them from happening again.

Suzy Kassem

Thank you for your wisdom, grandmother.""Pah." The old woman waves her hand to the side, as if brushing away some crumbs. "The young do not listen to the old." She smiles. "And perhaps they shouldn't. It is not our world to live in for long, and regardless, you will do with it as you choose when we are gone.

daystar721

Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences guide us to wisdom.

Suzy Kassem

If you are unaware of what's within, you will be shown in the mirror of your near future life experience. Wiser to keep a step ahead.

Jay Woodman

Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach.

Charles F. Glassman

Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental.

Charles F. Glassman

Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.

Charles F. Glassman

Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.

Charles F. Glassman

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

Charles F. Glassman

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