Wisdom Quotes - Page 4

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep humanity strong and united, you can deliver and orchestrate others toward the greater good.

Most of the people are nice to live with, but not to do business with!

Amelie seemed to focus on her again. For a few seconds she regarded her, frowning, and then smiled just a little. "So I recall," she said. "Not all wars are waged with bullets and swords, indeed. Some are wars of wills and ideas. It's good we both remember that." The smile faded. "But not all ideas win the war, and not all wills are strong enough. Darkness can descend so easily.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.

Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

‎your first thought would send the power of Quantum physics into a hive of activity. your first thought, would inevitably become the destiny of the day

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

The moon is very charming, alluring, attracting and magical, not because of its beauty, but because of its illusion and reflection of change.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

Complexity looks at simplicity and laughs at it for being too simple. But this is stupidity. Which is more valuable? The drop of pure rose oil or the cologne that mixes that one drop with many other things in order to make it affordable enough? It takes 60,000 roses to make a single ounce of rose oil. In simplicity there is value, there is meaning. Complexity is what happens when value and meaning are watered down. Don’t play games with pure-hearted people; they don’t need your rubbish. And don’t try to water them down so you can afford them.

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

The miracle of everyday living is the blessed breath of life.

The hidden time is an eternity that runs through every moment. It is all-time. The hidden time is a thread, and moments are the beads on the thread.

if you expose the wrong then also preserve the right.you are d salt of d earth

The young have everything but wisdom.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach

When you're there for others, you're ahead of everyone.

Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.

Imagination is a reality.

If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.

Whenever I love you, I find myself more loving.

Be a person who radiates the fire of love to burn and purify everything around to create the beauty of joy and peace.

Since humans are social animals, you’re basically only as good as your reputation.

True love is very silent, very personal, very non-demanding, and nonjudgmental.

Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.

Zeal, if it be well ordered, is most beautiful in a Christian; but if not, it is a thing of exceeding great danger: as fire in moderation is most comfortable, but in extremity most fearful.

I think it is a wise person who does not answer the door to uninvited police officers. Who knows what kind of crazy person could be standing there with a loaded gun!

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.

Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.

To do things right, we need to UNITE black and white, red and blue, blue and white - all stars and stripes. We need to either apply all the lessons from the past - or get rid of all the stories and START AGAIN. We are moving towards a rainbow world. Our children are intermixing and so are our colors. You can keep your religions and traditions, but always stand with what is good for the greater good of ALL as a united neighborhood instead of a segregated team. This is what America needs. This is what the world needs. Our unity. In our schools, neighborhoods, communities, state offices and economic equations. Choosing to stand with the right wing or left wing, or this group or that group, is only going to keep this country divided and grounded. In the end, all human needs are the same and they will never change. So what is there to fight about? Let's hit restart and unite. Flip the script and start again. To make America truly great again, it must be united. Every bird needs two wings to fly. Any nation torn at the wings will never soar the skies. So we can all start here. The only political party anyone should be an active part of is the one called concerned.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door

It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone

It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.

When you're alone, you harbour one hundred percent all of the good things. But this also means that you harbour all the bad things. I learnt my own goals slowed down when I was with others, but having shared the good things, sharing the pain, having that friendship excelled what I alone couldn't do. It doesn't need to be logical, friendships are a part of life, and when is that logical? Life doesn't make sense, but you don't have to live it alone.

Nothing is more compelling than the power of choice. You can choose good over evil and right over wrong. Choose right!

Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.

Live in the moment! Yesterday is gone forever, tomorrow is yet to come, but you have right now. Live in the moment!

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

The mystery in "Eyes of your Eyes" can never be found in the interstellar space unless you encounter timelessness.

The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it.

Anger has great strength,but no brains.Greed has many hands,but no heart.Fear has many titles,but no honor.Hate has many forms,but no soul.

Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.

The wisdom of God and the knowledge of His spiritual principles are accessible to the sons of God

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

Remember that there is onlyone important time and is Now. The present moment isthe only time over which we have dominion. The mostimportant person is always the person with whom youare, who is right before you, for who knows if you willhave dealings with any other person in the future. Themost important pursuit is making that person, the onestanding at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuitof life.