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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
He who hesitates is sometimes wise.
Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.
It is reported from 'Ubayd ibn 'Umayr (radiAllahu anhu) that he said: "It used to be said when winter came: O people of the Qur`an, the night has become long so you can pray (more) and the day has become short for you to fast."
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Vices are their own punishment
Appearances are often deceiving.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired
Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.
To advise is not to compel.
Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
Moderation in all things - including moderation.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.
It's OK to be down in the dumps - just don't stay there too long.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.
If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.
My enemy is my greatest teacher.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded and more fruitful manifestation.
Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
The grand instructor, time.
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
