Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.
I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. We cannot compromise with it. It is what it is, it has been what it has been, and it will be what it has been. So it doesn't change. What is needed is that we have to change. So, what is the truth? Truth is that you are not this body, this mind; you are not these emotions, intellect or conditionings. Nor you are ego. So what are you ? You are the pure Spirit.
Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.
The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.
Remember the maxim of the Romans which states that by union and counsel we can achieve anything.
You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.
Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines. " and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them. " Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that. . . the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.
An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.
