Solomon Quotes

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

All problems are people problems. And most people problems are people refusing to act like people.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

I have found the one whom my soul loves.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Knowledge is of more value than gold

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.