At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
I cannot be content with less than heaven; Living, and comprehensive of all life. Thee, universal heaven, celestial all; Thee, sacrjd seat of intellective time; Field of the soul 's best wisdom : home of truth , Star-throned.
Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of the spirit your first place of account To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold All of them worship out of fear of the fire � And consider deliverance abundant good fortune - Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers Of gardens or fire I have no opinion I seek no exchange for my dearest love
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right. . . Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.
Your prayers are your light; Your devotion is your strength; Sleep is the enemy of both. Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you. If you ignore it, if you waste it, You will only turn to dust.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
