Quotes About Wisdom

Because Nirvana is thus expressed in negative terms, there are many who have got a wrong notion that it is negative, and expresses self-annihilation. Nirvana is definitely no annihilation of self, because there is no self to annihilate. If at all, it is the annihilation of the illusion, of the false idea of self.

The Buddha says: 'Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Dr. [Richard] Bentley's son reading a novel, the Doctor said, "Why read a book which you cannot quote?"

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. --Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Books are not men—

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

How do you demonstrate a love for God and others in the heat of a contract negotiation in which you perceive the other party to be unreasonable? The Bible gives you no clear-cut answer. God designed the ambiguity in which you are forced to live in order to keep you trusting in Him.

Learn two things from Solomon's example: You cannot run fast enough to stay ahead of sin, and you cannot foresee or anticipate the consequences of your disobedience.

View every day as a school day and every relationship as an opportunity to learn. There is no such thing as an accidental encounter. Each person you meet has been sent by God for your edification.

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make your free." John 8:32 These words are carved over the doors of university buildings. Obviously, how the university and Jesus use this phrase differ. Jesus said of Himself, "I am Truth."1 And again, "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."2

Few things are as essential as education.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Life is a school of probability.

The abstract thinking of the world is never to be expected of persons in high places...

The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence.

I need love more than hope or money, wisdom or a drink Because slow negative death withers the world — and only yes can turn the tide Because love has your face and body Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and your hands are tender and your mouth is sweet — and God has made no other eyes like yours.

I need love more than ever now ... I need your love, I need love more than hope or money, wisdom or drink Because slow negative death withers the world - and only yes can turn the tide

This is a very simple Rule, but one to which there should be no exception — never to go beyond your own experience.

paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13