Quotes on Wisdom

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much_x000D_ _x000D_ Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning:_x000D_ _x000D_ You better starve, than eat whatever_x000D_ _x000D_ And better be alone, than with whoever.

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

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.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they’re never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.