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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
Stubbornness destroys good advice.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.
Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.
It is impossible for you to judge a person about his divinity unless and until the Kundalini reaches at least this part, which is the limbic area. You cannot make out whether a person is real or not, whether a guru is real or not. Because divinity cannot be perceived through your brain, unless and until this light of your Spirit shines into it.
First, then, a woman will, or won't, - depend on't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't. But, if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, Fear is affront: and jealousy injustice.
How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body."
Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
Please all, and you will please none.
Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?
There's nothing like going on with a thing.
There is no way; we make the road by walking it.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.
Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.
Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.
There is no greater burden than great potential.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.
Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.
Power naturally and necessarily follows property.
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.
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.
Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.
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 world is as you are.
Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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.
There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me
You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.