Famous Quotes

Silence will speakIf given an ear,Stillness is the movementOf our atmosphere,Circles have sidesWhen we draw the line,Death is sleepIn limited time.

~ Alaina Odessa

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

~ John Rosemond

CAN is the enemy of DO.

~ Alaina Odessa

Desire is the seed of potential.

~ Alaina Odessa

I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void.

~ Emil M. Cioran

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

~ Sappho

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

~ Edward Abbey

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

~ Sun Tzu

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.

~ Daisy Goodwin

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

~ Théophile Gautier

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

~ Robert A.f. Thurman

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

~ Melissa Bradley

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

~ Michael Gruber

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

~ C.p. Snow

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

~ Charles Yu

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

~ Jefferson Smith

Only those who row the boat make waves

~ Christina Dodd

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

~ Allan Lokos

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.

~ Hermann Hesse

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.

~ Georges Clémenceau

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

~ Georg Baselitz

There is no dishonor in wisdom.

~ James Welch

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

~ C.s. Lewis

One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

~ Sengcan

For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

~ Sengcan

When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

~ Sengcan

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

~ Michael Ende

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

~ Anne Rice

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

~ Vera Nazarian

How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?

~ Sorin Cerin

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.

~ Santosh Kalwar

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way

~ ;Mark Twain

How does a woman gain such wisdom in only twenty-nine years?” Gordon asked, escorting her across the lawns toward the mansion.“The same way a man does.“Which is?Lady Keely cast him an ambiguous smile. “Either you are born with wisdom, my lord, or you make dowithout it...

~ Patricia Grasso

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

~ Patrick White

King Solomon's life reminds meof wisdom, wealth, women, woes.

~ Toba Beta

Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

~ Sorin Cerin