When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening… — Al-Shafi‘i Copy Share Image
In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine… — Robert White Copy Share Image
“Human was simultaneously the bearer of God's wise rule into the world, and also the creature who would bring the loyalty and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The big insight that I have, not so much from writing 'Red Notice' but from living as the main character of 'Red… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
“(For those who like to quote Aristotle’s wisdom when appealing to his “Prime Mover” argument for the existence of God, let us… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
“She stares at her knife and wishes she were smarter about things. Wishes she knew how to say something wise or consoling… — Diane Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that's beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Pain is a predator when we run from it, it will inevitably chase us down and catch us in its clutches. The… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Very often, we are confronted by people who want us to pray their way or colleagues who want us to think their… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the… — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
“The age of recording is necessarily an age of nostalgia--when was the past so hauntingly accessible?--but its bitterest insight is the incapacity… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
…a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Men that have strength, often misplace the actings of it, because of their folly; and sometimes employ it to base ends, because… — William Symington Copy Share Image
“Where does a wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the beach." The small… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
We must begin looking at each other as brothers and sisters...and not walking brochures. We must see each other's strengths and encourage… — Dawud Wharnsby Ali Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect… — Habib Umar bin Hafiz Copy Share Image
