Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't good for you & knowing when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of… — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
“When we meet someone with a deeper spiritual insight, we think God cares more for them than for us. Yet surely God… — John Beevers Copy Share Image
“Dzieje kultury wykazują, ze głupota jest siostrą bliźniaczą rozumu, ona rośnie najbujniej nie na glebie dziewiczej ignorancji , lecz na gruncie uprawnym… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Why are you here? Where am I? You have come to this place… to lie in the ground? The derision in the… — Jeffrey Panzer Copy Share Image
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking. — Adi Da Copy Share Image
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes - everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it's the ability to quickly… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
“the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few... — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“First make your business itself a brand and then every product you create will be accepted as a brand.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure… — Andrea Seigel Copy Share Image
I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Proverbs9:10” — Salomon Copy Share Image
A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her… — Phil Moss Copy Share Image
There is never the right time to get your goals started or your dreams realized. Just start now! No one will do… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise. — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
Do not let anyone, of any sex, tell you that your intuitions and insights, your wisdom and your understandings, are somehow second-rate… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness. It feels no need to produce a big speech to… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image