Wisdom Quotes - Page 25

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.

You are your own star.

Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.

Create your own god in your mind whom you can love, trust, and follow.

In the time we spend reeling in confusion, grasping at straws trying to piece our egos together, we forget to acknowledge some things. Society created gender roles and categorizations and lifestyles and names and titles because we fear the unknown, especially when the unknown is us.It’s as though we’re stranded in the middle of an ocean, but we were promised the current would bring us back ashore. We’re given all we need on the life raft. As far as we can see, we’re being led back, slowly. We don’t know when we’ll approach the shore, but all evidence points to the fact that we will. But we don’t spend our time looking around, enjoying the view, seeing who came with us, and riding out the waves. We sit and panic about what we’re doing and why we came here.It doesn’t matter where we started because we may never know. It matters where we’re going, because that, we do. We begin and we end. We’ve seen one, so there’s only one other option.

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one’s courage; and the soul, in proportion to one’s love.

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

The question to ask ourselves; "Would you rather be right or would you rather have peace?" Some battles are worth fighting, and some are not.If being "right" is more important than having peace, and the cause doesn't evolve or enhance life, then we must ask ourselves; "why do I need to be right?"The question to ask in our own lives. At our work, within our homes and in our global community.

Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wisdom. In all your getting get wisdom first.

Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help them, but also that he resented the implication that he ought to

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

Very soon the world too will see what GOD sees in you.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

Positive thoughts are the birthing ground for making your dreams, goals, and desires come true.

The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.

Don't seek permission to be happy.

An awesome thing children need is a frank smile from a sincere heart

We can only teach what we have learned

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

If you want the perfect relationship, start with the one you have with yourself.

There are people who want to change the world, make it a better place... but what they don’t know, is that to make a difference in the life of one person and to make a single person’s life a better thing to live, is just as valuable as changing the whole world. And most of the time, that’s the only thing that we should be doing. You can gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process, and in that case, the whole world just isn’t worth it.

Go for your dreams and get lost to find yourself again and again.

Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence!

Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.

What does it mean to be cultured? Who is the cultured person? The cultured individual is not defined nor determined by status in society nor by wealth; but the cultured individual is determined and defined by his or her sense for the art of life. And what is the art of life? The art of life is the reflection of the mind and the soul upon the world, upon other people, upon the respect and understanding of other people and upon the things that are in this world and beyond. There is a joy that is always sought in beautiful things. Being cultured is being conscious, reflective, understanding, feeling, aware. Knowing how to feel, to listen, to understand. A desire to find or to create joy in many things— that is the art of life. And these things define a cultured person.

Realization of your inner divinity is the scientific religion of thinking humanity.

A dog to vomit does turn,A fool to folly but return,The wise err and learn,Gaining from each burn.

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.

Peace is when we look upon the world together.

It is easy to fall, but hard to rise.

In every step you take, keep your feet firmly on the ground.

You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Love everyone you meet, everyone will love you.

Love is the language of the heart,which everyone understands.

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.

The good and wise lead quite lives

I have no time to judge anyone because I am so busy to love everyone.

He who illumines one has begun illumining the world.

The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.

Every time we choose our past over our present, we kill our future.

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day

Every living creature breathes.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

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

Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to find the key;With thee takeOnly what none else would keep;Learn to dream when thou dost wake;Learn to wake when thou dost sleep.Learn to water joy with tears,Learn from fears to vanquish fears;To hope, for thou dar'st not despair;Exult, for that thou dar'st not grieve;Plough thou the rock until it bear;Know, for thou else couldst not believe;Lose, that the lost thou may'st receive;Die, for none other way canst live.'When earth and heave lay down their veil,And that apocalypse turns thee pale;When thy seeing blindeth theeTo what thy fellow-mortals see;When their sight to thee is sightless;Their living, death; their light, most lightless;Search no more--Pass the gates of Luthany,Tread the region Elenore!'Where is the land of Luthany?And where the region Elenore?I do faint therefore.'When to the new eyes of theeAll things by immortal power,Near or far,HiddenlyTo each other linked are,That thou canst not stir a flowerWithout troubling of a star;When thy song is shield and mirrorTo the fair snake curled pain,Where thou dar'st affront her terrorThat on her thou may'st attainPersean Conquest; seek no more,O seek no more!Pass the gates of Luthany,Tread the region Elenore!

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be!