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I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.
I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?
If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
Bankruptcy, divorce, these are feathers in my cap, I suppose. I have a wisdom which has been born from these things.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.
One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.