“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
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Wise Quotes — page 124 of 916
“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
“All that glitters is not gold.”
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
“Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.”
“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
“The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind”
“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
“Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.”
“If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.”
“No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.”
“The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.”
“It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.”