The Great Pearl Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 3

I intend to achieve my goals during my lifetime, but if I fail, I will not rest even in the afterlife

The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.

A mistake is a stepping stone to success

You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell

Powerless=lifeless.

An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is

Keep running; keep dreaming, keep alive the flame of hope; defeat and despair will not catch up with you

Doubt is the first ray of illumination

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

Success is across the roaring river, the brave shall cross it

How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?

I came looking for life and I found you

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life

Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.

In politics what you see is not what you get

Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men

Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines

Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds

Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it

You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things you like to talk about, that's your area of expertise

What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope.

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them

Writing is self-pleasure

The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind

You are what you believe

Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.

Every time someone starts a project he is considered nuts, until he beats all the odds and laughs the last.

The road to your success is not a highway. You have to create it as you go

Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.

You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.

Please others and you please yourself

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word

We are all heroes of our little worlds

Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction

Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world

Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story

Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.

Visionaries will always meet opposition from weak minds but the seeds

Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul

Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic

Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers

Today almost everybody is a writer, the enormous publish button on blogs and websites begs you everywhere to click on it! And bam you are a writer. To hell with agents and publishing houses and rejection letters. Immortality for you is on the click of a mouth! We are advancing at the speed of light! You can become an author at 140 characters. To hell with long winding sentences and long hours of scratching the head, the immortals of today instantly get a "like" and they instantly enter the pantheon! They seat side by side Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, St Paul, Buddha, Martin Luther, Rousseau, Bangambiki…

Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other according to his actions

You cannot write if you are not on fire

People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever

Life is politics, you do it or it does you

This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have

Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running.

It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation

Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.

When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance

It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance

You never know what you will write until you write it

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them