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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.
Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.
It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.
Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.
A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.
The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.