It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists whose lives… — Frank E. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
“My light was held in the dark until I was ready. The darkness is not a thing to fear, simply a place… — Kelly Martin Copy Share Image
The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to… — Traci L. Slatton Copy Share Image
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind -… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies while… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“Books are the ultimate ride-or-die companions. They’re always there, never cancel plans, and don’t care if you’re in your pajamas. They offer… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the most sagacious ancient Greeks, the wisdom of the most perceptive rabbis of ancient Canaan, and all the parables… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of… — Ruth Tessler Goldstein Copy Share Image
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms --… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Hence, the wise man accustoms himself to coming trouble, lightening by long reflection the evils which others lighten by long endurance. We… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We need science, more and better science, not for its technology, not for leisure, not even for health or longevity, but for… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“We are more similar to the outside world than we could ever imagine. The great truth is that our nature is analogous… — Paola Sanjinez Copy Share Image
In that courtship, not only shine your eyes but also shine your brain and shine your heart because it is not all… — Chimbiani Ochonogor Copy Share Image
“The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young.… — Beverly Swerling Copy Share Image
Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
