Philosophy Quotes Quotes

Once the powers of the mind are concentrated and turned back upon itself, as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so would the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Observing is the basis of wisdom.

~ Eraldo Banovac

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Money is the most beautiful woman in the world;even when old and wrinkled, men are head-over-heals in love with her.

~ Matshona Dhiliwayo

Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A thinker builds his castle of thoughts inside a garden of roses and it loses its relevance among the roses. He builds it along the shore and it’s trampled by the fury of waves eventually. He builds it on a cliff high enough and it becomes impregnable but out of reach. Such is the fate of that castle

~ Ashutosh Gupta

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.

~ Marissa Meyer

It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every deadened system. Especially one's own.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

A closed heart opens no mind.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Life has a plan for each of us, we may not understand the whys on our journey but every event is meaningful nonetheless.

~ Ken Poirot

I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth...

~ Ken Poirot

We can't change yesterday, but we can change tomorrow...

~ Ken Poirot

We're shadows! of naught;living, dying! for what's not.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

In the non-dual state, God, soul and universe are essentially one absolute system which is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous and eternal.

~ Abhijit Naskar

You got to die for 'It'. Or you'll remain a religious nutcase. In other words, a dickhead, nitwit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A holy life is not a life empty of sin, but a life full of God's presence.

~ Alin Sav

Pray within. Stay within. Seek, find the Within. For, there's no heaven or hell or god anywhere but herein.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

God is the world's oldest poet, love is the world's oldest poem.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Like an alchemical wave sending ripples of love to every part of our being, once we become conscious of an intelligent life force existing within us, everything changes.

~ Atalina M Homan

Religious unity and religious tolerance are not the same thing. Unity doesn’t come merely through tolerance. You don’t need to tolerate people from other religions. It is time you start loving them. Toleration may make you a decent person, but it is love that makes you a true human being.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of helplessness, misery and heartache.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is ONE difference between a successful and unsuccessful people.There is ONE difference between happy and unhappy people.There is ONE difference between wise and unwise people.There is ONE difference between achievers and non-achievers.And that ONE difference is the BEHAVIOUR of an individual.It is neither your education nor your wealth or social status but your BEHAVIOUR that decides your happiness, success and wisdom. Mind your behaviour and it will take care of everything else.

~ Sanjeev Himachali

You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

~ Eraldo Banovac