Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

tears,love,life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Nature streamlines the soul connection with the divine.

Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

Prejudice is poison in the veins of the world.

Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children." -Diana

Royal Wisdom: The Most Daft, Cheeky, and Brilliant Quotes from Britain's Royal Family