Wisdom Quotes - Page 183

You never want an Australian with his back against the wall. You put any 12 blokes together and you'll get a job done. Whether it's getting a bogged four-wheel-drive off the beach or standing in front of a cricket wicket and making sure we're in a dominant position. It's the same dog, different leg action, so to speak.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

I believe the day is done. Whether it's been the best day or the worst, it's over; let it go.

God doesn't need verbal language for communication.

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.

We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.