Wisdom Quotes
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.
Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.
When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.
A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.
Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
