All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“ The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie. ”

“The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.”

“… dançava para si mesmo, um homem nu entre cegos…”

“Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.”

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”

“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.”

“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.”

“Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?”

“Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.”

“Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.”

“It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.”

“Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.”

“…the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can’t see through it–nor can they.”

“Feeling guilt dims our light. Instead of dimming our light to make others feel more comfortable, we could just continue to shine and foster the rise of the vibrations of those around us.Being Happy and Feeling Good does not mean you have no compassion for the misery of those around you. It simply means you won’t dim your light to make them feel comfortable – instead, you’re going to help light the way.At first, your light may be a bit too bright for others and it may hurt their eyes, yet it’s far better to shine rather than to hide your light. When you hide your light for too long, it extinguishes and you slip right back into darkness…unable to find your way until someone ‘shiny’ comes along to light your way and help you to find the light you still possess within, your Soul’s Magnificence.”

“How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.“The same way a man does.”“Which is?”Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. “Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it…”