Timeless Wisdom: Profound Quotes for Life's Journey - Page 61
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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.Collection: Wisdom
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.Collection: Wisdom
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.Collection: Wisdom
Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.Collection: Wisdom
Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?Collection: Wisdom
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.Collection: Wisdom
Only the wounded physician heals.Collection: Wisdom
It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.Collection: Wisdom
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.Collection: Wisdom
To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.Collection: Wisdom
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.Collection: Wisdom
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.Collection: Wisdom
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to meCollection: Wisdom
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.Collection: Wisdom
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.Collection: Wisdom
The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.Collection: Wisdom
I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.Collection: Wisdom
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.Collection: Wisdom
Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.Collection: Wisdom
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.Collection: Wisdom
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.Collection: Wisdom
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!Collection: Wisdom
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.Collection: Wisdom
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'Collection: Wisdom
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.Collection: Wisdom
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.Collection: Wisdom
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.Collection: Wisdom
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.Collection: Wisdom
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.Collection: Wisdom
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.Collection: Wisdom
My enemy is my greatest teacher.Collection: Wisdom
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.Collection: Wisdom
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.Collection: Wisdom
Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.Collection: Wisdom
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.Collection: Wisdom
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.Collection: Wisdom
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.Collection: Wisdom
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.Collection: Wisdom
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.Collection: Wisdom
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?Collection: Wisdom
... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.Collection: Wisdom
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.Collection: Wisdom
Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.Collection: Wisdom
Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.Collection: Wisdom
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.Collection: Wisdom
I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.Collection: Wisdom
Conscience is wiser than science.Collection: Wisdom
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.Collection: Wisdom