Quotes Tagged "pearls-of-wisdom"

Don't let the illusion of destiny keep you from doing what you love to do - for nothing is meant to be, or not to be - it is only your willful and persistent action that determines your destiny.

You can exterminate a human being, but not an idea.

Your life is your decision.

Do something so radical that you become the very first of your kind in that deed, and you shall never be forgotten so long as human life exists.

Think of love, dream of love, live of love.

The greatest happiness in the world is in helping the people you don't know and seeing them happy.

The only way we can grow is to recognize the shortcomings of today, take actions to mend them tomorrow and make them history the day after tomorrow.

Rise as a human being - live as a legend - work as a Messiah - and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you.

The so-called holy warriors are driven by a cause, no matter how disgustingly barbarian that cause be. If only we the conscientious humans were as driven as them, by our urge for real peace and real harmony, then we could, for real, not in theory, live in a world of pure compassion and hatelessness.

The society is neurotic – it is a fact – no conscientious creature can deny it. But my question to you is – what are you doing to obliterate this neuroticism for good?

Blind obedience to books, whether it is the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas or any other, has erected more and more walls in this world - and to defend those walls, even more fences on both sides. Now the real question is, how much more time will humanity take to realize the obvious devastation that these disgusting walls of segregation have brought along and keep on bringing along in this world!

Let your action glitter with real holiness - and then only will the world witness the manifestation of real religion - the religion of love - the religion of compassion - the religion of service

The world has enough gods, more than seven billion of them, to diminish all its miseries and perturbations. Then why is it not good and safe a planet yet to live on! Because those Gods are sleeping and in their dream they are worshipping imaginary shadows of their inner divinity. They need to wake up first, in order to reign over the world and then transform it with their ceaseless streams of radiant divinity.

Time is memory - where there is memory, there is time, where there is no memory, there is no time.

Without truth, time is merely the kingdom of the animals. Time brings progress and humanitarian glory, only if truth walks the nerves of our mind, as we walk the alleys of space - in that walk we relinquish the space between the self and the other.

Truth never rusts.

Only fools talk about wisdom, the wise knows to keep silent and let their action do the talking.

Authenticity and respect go to those who stick to their own specific field of work. For example, I am a Biologist and my work is the understanding of human nature - that's where I place all my attention. I know nothing revelatory about modern physics - I know nothing revelatory about mathematics - I know nothing revelatory about architecture - I know nothing revelatory about any field of understanding except for the ones directly related to biology. It doesn't mean that I cannot learn about other fields - I can, but every human has his or her own distinct knack, and mine is understanding humans - understanding how and why they think, what they think - how and why they feel, what they feel - how and why they behave, the way they behave - how and why they perceive, what they perceive.

Better dope than dilettante.

There is nothing wrong in not knowing, but that ignorance must never be covered with the illusion of knowledge. Only when you know that you don't know, you can learn and grow.