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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.
We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.
People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.
It is very important that we look at what we CAN do, rather than what is impossible to do.
Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.
If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.