Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 26

• When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wise, Lying, Tired

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• Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape can often be discerned by following the path projected by a pointing finger. "Them that have ears, let them hear," said Jesus; whoever "hears" the inner import of words will be able to "see" their inward meaning.

  Robert Svoboda

  Jesus, Often Is, Inward

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• A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Men, African American

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?"
  Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a while, slowly translating the Greek in his mind. Finally, he said, "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, againstour will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

  Mary Doria Russell

  Pain, Book, Fall

  "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, February 23, 2010.

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• Many teachers will tell you to believe; then they put out your eyes of reason and instruct you to follow only their logic. But I want you to keep your eyes of reason open; in addition, I will open in you another eye, the eye of wisdom.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Teacher, Believe, Eye

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• The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

  Chidananda Saraswati

  Men, Intelligent, Vedas

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• And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Substance, Compounds

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• In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Educational, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

  Vernon Cooper

  Teaching, Future, Learning

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• As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving Up, Integrity, Educational

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• He who knows his soul knows this truth:
  " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature.
  I am the stars,
  I am the waves,
  I am the Life of all,
  I am the laughter within all hearts,
  I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul.
  I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. "

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Stars, Laughter, Flower

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• The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

  Richard Bandler

  Want, Found, Limitation

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• And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

  Plato

  Connected

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• Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Unity, Substance

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• With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Stars, Distance

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Men, Way

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• Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Voice, Feelings, Sound

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

  Michael Faraday

  Space, Lines, Force

  Michael Faraday (1852). “On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force: With a Plate”, p.408

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• The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Simple, Substance, Speak

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• When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?

  Michael Faraday

  Hieroglyphics, May, Might

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• Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mind, Atheism, Deceived

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• ... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the two is not intuitive. There is required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an inference, if indeed it be drawn by reasoning and argument. What that medium is, I must confess, passes my comprehension; and it is incumbent on those to produce it, who assert that it really exists, and is the origin of all our conclusions concerning matter of fact.

  David Hume

  Two, Mind, Desire

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Night, Evil

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Tales & Poems”, p.649, Vintage

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• Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Atoms, Elements, Shapes

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• A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Expectations, Needs, Favors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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