“We all know that a good example is more effective than advice.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 27
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“You can always — always — give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!”
“Why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?”
“Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.”
“Indeed, wisdom is born of meditation; without meditation wisdom is lost.”
“If you have wisdom, you will be without greed or attachment.”
“One with true wisdom is a secure boat for crossing over the ocean of old age, sickness, and death.”
“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”
“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
“The idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetics that Man has invented.”
“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
“We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love.”
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure.”
“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.”
“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
“Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.”
“Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?”
“Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.”