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Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.
A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.
Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.
It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain