To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Who make not friends with sinful, lives not away from hope futilely, Who outrages not another's wife and betrays not arrogance surely;… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea… — Buddha Copy Share Image
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“You keep playing with what broke you, then wonder why you don’t heal. Leave the wound alone, throw away the poison, and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
“Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“While it is possible for the con fessor in some cases to obtain such knowledge without confession, this is not the rule,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is always someone who cares for us and loves us. We may not always be aware of that yet we are… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
“Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“Grant me the serenity to selflessly forgo my relationship to save humankind; To accept that the man I love cannot and will… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I believe in Free Will, the Force Almighty by which we conduct ourselves as if we were the sons and daughters of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
Stupid people words are Mind your own Business But Genius people words are Mind others' Businesses first realize their weakness then modify… — Nyakallo Lets'ela Copy Share Image
There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“I guess you are,” said Lee. “You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is eminently worth living, were anyone so fortunate. It would be the life of an animal, brave and alert,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe: - Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is such a blind stuff that it can never give you any idea as to what is reality. Because whatever you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image