Wisdom Quotes

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

~ John Piper

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

~ Ueda Akinari

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

~ Eleanor Brown

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

~ Gary L. Francione

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.

~ Matthew Goldfinger

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans.By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation.

~ Gary L. Francione

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose “unnecessary” harm on animals, and that is measured by what treatment is considered as necessary within particular industries, and according to customs of use, to exploit animals. The bottom line is that animals do not have any respect-based rights in the way that humans have, because we do not regard animals as having any moral value. They have only economic value. We value their interests economically, and we ignore their interests when it is economically beneficial for us to do so.At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more.

~ Gary L. Francione

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an evil doer.

~ Gary L. Francione

Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.

~ Robin Macnaughton

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

~ Eric T. Benoit

Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional. ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

I learned from Jurassic Park that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

~ Christopher C. Starr

Make your ideal your new real.

~ Derek Padula

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

~ Herman Melville

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

~ Osho

Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

~ Chögyam Trungpa

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

~ Deepak Chopra

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

~ Carson Mccullers

Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.

~ Fadi Hattendorf

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

~ Osho

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

~ T.f. Hodge

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.

~ Malinda Lo

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Their mother is Athene, the goddess of wisdom, and, although they are often ready to play the buffoon to amuse you, such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise.

~ T.h. White

one should never assume anything

~ Dick Francis

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

~ L. Quick

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

~ Donna Woolfolk Cross

The friend is a human EdenBut Eden is so easily lostWhen you choose, choose wiselyBefore you share, count the cost

~ Genieve Dawkins

No one is ever going to give you something that they're too afraid to even claim for themselves. People don't know themselves, so they don't like to see other people figure it out and live their lives in ways that they themselves cannot. So they try to box you in, and limit you, so they don't feel inadequate. But you don't need their approval- the only person who ever, ever limits you is yourself.

~ Danielle Jordan

The brillant person who does not take heed is the same as the ignorant who does not know.

~ Debra E. Johnson

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.

~ Robertson Davies

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

~ Saul Bellow

Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go? Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.

~ Amanda Hocking

You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom.Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you.

~ Toba Beta

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

~ George Orwell

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

~ Ravi Ravindra

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

~ Billie Jean King