Timeless Wisdom: Profound Quotes for Life's Journey - Page 62
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At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.Collection: Wisdom
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.Collection: Wisdom
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.Collection: Wisdom
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.Collection: Wisdom
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.Collection: Wisdom
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.Collection: Wisdom
As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.Collection: Wisdom
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.Collection: Wisdom
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.Collection: Wisdom
A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.Collection: Wisdom
He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.Collection: Wisdom
Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.Collection: Wisdom
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.Collection: Wisdom
If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.Collection: Wisdom
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.Collection: Wisdom
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.Collection: Wisdom
The absent are easily refuted.Collection: Wisdom
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.Collection: Wisdom
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.Collection: Wisdom
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.Collection: Wisdom
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.Collection: Wisdom
What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.Collection: Wisdom
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.Collection: Wisdom
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.Collection: Wisdom
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.Collection: Wisdom
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.Collection: Wisdom
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.Collection: Wisdom
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.Collection: Wisdom
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.Collection: Wisdom
The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.Collection: Wisdom
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.Collection: Wisdom
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.Collection: Wisdom
Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.Collection: Wisdom
A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"Collection: Wisdom
What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.Collection: Wisdom
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?Collection: Wisdom
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.Collection: Wisdom
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.Collection: Wisdom
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.Collection: Wisdom
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.Collection: Wisdom
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.Collection: Wisdom
Wisdom is the repose of the mind.Collection: Wisdom
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.Collection: Wisdom
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.Collection: Wisdom
We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?Collection: Wisdom
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.Collection: Wisdom