"wisdom"タグの名言

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.