Quotes About Balance

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.