If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion. '
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property. . . . But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property. . . , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. . . Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us from.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
True wisdom always leads us to please God.
As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
You must base the Wisdom on Love.
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world. . . History is the true demonstration of Religion.
Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Wisdom comes with winters