Words Of Wisdom Quotes

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Real kindness seeks no return.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

It is not by muscle,
speed,
or physical dexterity that great things are achieved,
but by reflection,
force of character,
and judgment.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

It's common to say that trees come from seeds. But how can a tiny seed create a huge tree? Seeds do not contain the resources need to grow a tree. These must come from the medium or environment within which the tree grows. But the seed does provide something that is crucial : a place where the whole of the tree starts to form. As resources such as water and nutrients are drawn in, the seed organizes the process that generates growth. In a sense, the seed is a gateway through which the future possibility of the living tree emerges.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Reality is where your consciousness is located

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.