What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Common wisdom in Texas Hold'em suggests that you should raise before the flop if you're planning to play a hand. The saying… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Mind is not a product of brain rather an integral part of the soul, our eternal being. Those who understand this truth… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
“So Wise Man summ'ned Crow an' say-soed him these words: Fly across the crazed'n'jiffyin' ocean to the Mighty Volcano, an' on it's… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The more adept we become at feeling love and gratitude for all life’s earthly learning experiences, the more quickly we are reminded… — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
Will & Grace' was my favourite show growing up and retains a special place in my heart, not least because it was… — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow up— to be treated like adults, to have freedom… — Marcella Purnama Copy Share Image
“I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the… — Bill Hayes Copy Share Image
“Our ancient sources of wisdom call on human beings to rise to their highest capacity and behave in extraordinarily open and generous… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
“if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others, and upon his life and circumstances,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The joy in what I do is mostly creativity. I think creativity is an ecstatic impulse that we all have. And there's… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion… — Seyoung Kim Copy Share Image
“But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
“In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not… — Elliot Knight Copy Share Image
The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth… — John Alfred Langford Copy Share Image
“The truth of who we are dissolves the illusions when they arise, simply by us not buying into them anymore. By realizing… — Tehya Sky Copy Share Image
“Through being fired I was given the perfect circumstances to finally answer my calling and live my dream, and I remain grateful… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“Love me this first day of June. I'd rather sleep with ashes than priestly wisdom. Of all the lonely places in the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I even went to the source of all wisdom, I went and knelt at the great Queen of Drag’s feet and asked… — John Goode Copy Share Image
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable,… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. Its only advantage, so far as I have… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, 6 and he will be… — Crossway Copy Share Image