Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures]… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
“The realization of what wisdom actually was slowly blossomed and ripened in Siddhartha—and he discovered what the goal of his long search… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“The historical figures who earned the honorific “So-and-So the Great” were not great artists, scholars, doctors, or inventors, people who enhanced human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The weekly show View on Africa was what first gave her the insight that there was a world outside Soweto. It wasn’t… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Proverbs 11:9: Evil words destroy one’s friends; wise discernment rescues the godly. Proverbs 11:12: It is foolish to belittle a neighbor; a… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“There is ... a great wisdom in our language. It is the embodiment of innumerable experiences of the past. It is not… — The Shaking of the Foundations Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“I like places like this," he announced. I like old places too," Josh said, "but what's to like about a place like… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Congressional overseers and the public must be given appropriate insight into government activities as well as their legal rationale to ensure America's… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness:… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“imagine the desert mothers, with hair tangled tighter than their theology and breasts that flowed milk and mystic wisdom. they knew how… — Beth Morey Copy Share Image
For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the sun is not in producing light and heat, but in sharing them with everyone and everything! Wisdom that… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
“We truly help others working on ourselves. When it comes from the knowledge that the only power we have is over our… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
“Man was created as a being whose very existence is derived from and dependent upon a Creator whom he must acknowledge as… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“Western culture has some common wisdom associated with these ideas. Don’t be materialistic. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Sticks and… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As the wise say, a sensible man looks after his garden, and a coward looks after his money; a just man cares… — Angélica Gorodischer Copy Share Image
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image