It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process.
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.