Immanuel Kant Quotes

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels.

There are three things which the wise man holds in reverence: the Will of Heaven, those in authority, and the words of the sages

Any time I found a new piece of knowledge or wisdom, I would thank Allah for it. Then Allah would bless me with more of it.

By common consent grey hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

I want to tell the students to follow their heart and respect their parents and teachers as they are their ultimate gurus.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

An old man in a house is a good sign.