Wisdom Quotes
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.
Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?
The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.
The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.
Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.
That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.
Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.
We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.
Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.
It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.
God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.
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He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
