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Wisdom Quotes
"Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?"
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"Adding your own piece of knowledge to the vast knowledge of the humanrace could be a sufficient reason for having existed."
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"Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality."
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"Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want."
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"No person is ever wrong in how they experience their reality."
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"For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail."
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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
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"A little thinking is a dangerous thing."
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"Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion."
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"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
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"I see a lot of people complaining about the things they can fix, and a lot of people being accepting of the things they cannot change. Maybe tragedy really is the catastrophic event, for the way people view their lives. I would rather be wise, than nieve."
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"Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided."
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"Do not only describe your situation, that event, that person, place or that thing. By describing, we limit our thoughts in pondering. We ought to prescribe. The sick describes his illness to the doctor and the doctor prescribes an antidote. We all do have stories to tell in life, we all do face challenges each day, and likewise we experience joyous moments; that is life. To espouse an unpopular cause, prescribe a great antidotes to every life occurrence from daybreak to sunset. Remember prefer prescribe to describe!"
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"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
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"Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?"
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"Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them."
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"Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!"
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"Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult."
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"Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books."
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."
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"I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly."
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"I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
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"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
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"A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized."
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"If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!"
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"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
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"F you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen."
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