A Quote by Ivan Panin
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
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Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires.
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.
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