Quotes About Morality And Wisdom

#1. As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Eric Alterman

#2. One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent ... Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Joe Baca

#5. Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

Criss Jami

#6. Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.

Richard Bach

#7. Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Criss Jami

#8. There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

Donita K. Paul

#9. Remember, morality is God's standard, not humankind's standard. So it is important that we understand the process that God used to bring us his wisdom, truth and historical perspective.

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#10. Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.

Michael Ian Black

#12. Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Ayn Rand

#14. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#15. The harmony of the part with the whole may be the best definition of health, beauty, truth, wisdom, morality, and happiness. This

Will Durant

#16. You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ...

Steven J. Carroll

#17. Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#18. Two wrongs' create an additional problem.
'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse.
'Two rights' create a solution.

Emmanuel Aghado

#19. Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

Shimon Peres

#21. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Ayn Rand

#22. You have behaved in an exemplary manner until now. Even when you could have gained by doing something wrong, you refrained from doing so. You didn't fall prey to the logic of doing a small wrong for the sake of the greater good; of the ends justifying the means. That takes moral courage.

Amish Tripathi

#23. I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

Travis Culliton

#24. To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

Ayn Rand

#25. Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

Travis Culliton

#26. What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right; no one can be always right.

Roy T. Bennett

#27. The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#28. From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

Idries Shah

#29. Love for the humanity is the basis for morality.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

#31. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.

Abhijit Naskar

#32. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#33. The main thing is you have to be under the protection of spirituality, under the protection of morality, under the protection of divine laws. If you're not under that protection, you can get caught up into anything.

Nirmala Srivastava

#34. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

#35. When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands
But the scene is grey.

Stephen Crane

#36. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#37. Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#38. ...atheism leaves no room for excuses...

Travis Culliton

#39. Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson

#40. Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Aleister Crowley

#41. The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Bertrand Russell

#42. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}

Richard Mc Sweeney

#43. In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.

Ken Wilson

#44. Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

Andy Stanley

#45. You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

A.J. Darkholme

#46. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Criss Jami

#47. You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

Andy Stanley

#48. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#49. Morality is always prejudicial.

Stefan Emunds

#50. Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren't is because you have a conscience.

Heather Chapple

#51. Is more unfair," as an English historian has well said, "than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#52. Just because there isn't a "Thou shalt not" attached to a situation does not necessarily mean it is a "Thou shalt.

Andy Stanley

#53. One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear
and we just don't want to hear it.

Andy Stanley

#54. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Ayn Rand

#55. To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#56. In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

Dalai Lama

#57. Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Arthur Rimbaud

#58. Morality cannot replace goodness.
Knowledge cannot replace wisdom.
Fame cannot replace honor.
Pleasure cannot replace contentment.
Passion cannot replace love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#59. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

Ayn Rand