Quotes About Balance

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

I'd rather be a semi intelligent thinker and doer...than a highly intelligent thinker.. or an unintelligent doe

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

No matter the situation don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.