Quotes Tagged "wisdom"

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.

A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet.

Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm.

អ្នកត្រូវតែជាអ្នកផ្លាស់ប្ដូរដែលអ្នកចង់ឃើញពិភពលោក។

Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow!

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

... what you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!

Даже и най-скъпият часовник има само 60 минути в час

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself.

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.

Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly.