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Wisdom Quotes
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
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"As you become aware of life, you will begin to see the root cause to all your actions and reactions. Then you will realize that you are not angry with the child because he made a mistake, but because you get pleasure out of being angry. The mistake was only a excuse."
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"Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty."
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"Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed."
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"Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture."
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"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"
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"It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think."
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"It's important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life."
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"You must not confuse the opportunity to be wise with the opportunity to be clever."
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"A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful."
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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
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"The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational judgement of the validity of the doctrine and of the values which it implies, although such analysis may lead to a better understanding of the real meaning of a doctrine and thereby influence one's value judgement."
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"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
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"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern fA1?4hrt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."
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"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
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"What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others."
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
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"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity."
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"We have to do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."
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"To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions."
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"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."
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"The biblical preacher talks about the poor man's wisdom that saved a city but he was immediately forgotten. A poverty of ideas, contributions, uniqueness or influence, will overshadow the visibility of good potential. Keep those ideas flowing and you will not be forgotten."
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"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
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"Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love."
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"Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom."
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