Wisdom Quotes

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

the man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.

If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself

I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

Don’t close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: ‘It’s dark.

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

Lao Tzu "The key to growth is the introductionof higher dimensions of consciousnessinto our awareness.

the starting point of all achievement is desire

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

I shall live here in the rains, There in winter, Elsewhere in summer, " muses the fool, Not aware of the nearness of death.

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.

Each situation is a blossom to be picked with a curious spirit.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...