A Quote by John Quincy Adams

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

John Quincy Adams

Quote Topics

Wisdom Appear Brighter Does Laws Meditate More Moses Striking

Quote Author

John Quincy Adams
American - President
July 11, 1767 - February 23, 1848

Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)

Ravi Ravindra

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.

Orison Swett Marden

Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

Frederick Lenz

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Charles Stanley

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

Timothy Noah

The more we work to remove our fears and insecurities, the more aware we become of the interworkings of the universe and tap into the laws of nature, which, to most, will appear like we're doing some magic trickery.

Tara Stiles

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

John Lancaster Spalding

The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

P. J. O'Rourke

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

Jack Kornfield

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

Stephanie Mills

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

R.J. Rushdoony

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Isaac Asimov

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

Thomas Hardy

Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

Frederick Lenz

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.