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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence
The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.