“When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.”
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Wise Quotes — page 194 of 916
“Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.”
“We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.”
“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”
“Integrity has no need of rules.”
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
“About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.”
“To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.”
“Your attitude is like the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right.”
“Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.”
“Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?”
“The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?”
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”
“I am deeply superficial.”
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
“I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.”
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
“The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.”
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”