One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell that beautiful perfume; they follow that smell. That perfume creates a yearning in their hearts for their Lord, and as a result the sincere believers increase their pace, efforts and devotions.
"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.
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.
There's wisdom in wine.
The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. Walter Reuther defined power one day. He said, "Power is the ability of a labor union like the U. A. W. to make the most powerful corporation in the world, General Motors, say 'Yes' when it wants to say 'No. ' That's power. "
I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've learned not to be so naive and trusting. Today I question everything and listen to my instincts.
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?
