A Quote by Giovanni Ruffini

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Giovanni Ruffini

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Giovanni Ruffini
Italian - Poet
September 20, 1807 - November 3, 1881

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Rudolf Steiner

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

Rumi

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Peter Ritchie Calder

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

George Bernard Shaw

The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.

James Madison

What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

Gautama Buddha

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Mark Millar

In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.

Neal A. Maxwell

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Hoffman

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

Richard G. Scott

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.