Quotes on Words Of Wisdom

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

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.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!