Famous Quotes About wisdom

An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

Everything can be taken from a man but...the last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest; a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

Real peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.