B Quotes
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“Beware of becoming too sure of your beliefs, because you run the risk of dissociation, or losing touch with parts of yourself. That is why the irrational and spontaneous are so precious to the Sufi. The 'irrational' circumnavigates the rational mind and by that allows the unconscious to manifest. The spontaneous and flexible person, who is not afraid of non-rational impulses, unorthodox behaviors, poetry, and dreams, in other words, the totality of being, acquires a unitive nature.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Beware of befriending wolves; remember, they are only loyal to their appetite.”
“Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.”
“Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.”
“Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll”
“Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.”
Source: Island
“Beware of being trapped in your own imaginings. You instill sparks in others, you charge them with your illusions, and when they burst forth into illuminations, you are taken in.”
“Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.”
“Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
“beware of carrying a warm heart in company of cold, for warm blood freeze faster than cold.
Contrast dynamics.”
“Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be.”
“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.”
“Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.”
“Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.”
“Beware of corporate government cops.”
“Beware of courses that claim you will become a billionaire if you purchase them.”
Source: Ups and Downs
“Beware of creating tedium!”
Source: An autobiography
“Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.”
Source: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
“Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of the spectator, because life is not a spectacle, because a a sea of sorrows is not a proscenium, because a man who screams is not a dancing bear.”
“Beware of deceivers for they are great speakers with great tongues equipped with deceitful sweet lies.”
“Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.”
“Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”
“Beware of destructive individuals whose spirits breathe every day the worst toxic oxygen of the soul, "SALIGIA" Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.
No matter how much goodness, patience, understanding, assistance, forgiveness and letting go you have given them, they will resurface again and again at the doors of your home to impede your happiness.
Let truth and goodness always prevail but never be again a doormat of their abusive, evil ways.”
Source: Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
“Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.”
“Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.”
Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life
“Beware of "don'ts", "thou shalt" and the like. These are signals of programming attempts at your brain.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by watching them you will become unidentified with them, you will become a mirror reflecting them. And this brings great freedom. Freedom from dreams is freedom from the world.”
“Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Beware of economists who hide assumptions.”
“Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”
“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
“Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.”
“Beware of fair-weather friends.
They come to you when the sky is crystal clear and disappear when the same sky is overcast with dark clouds.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Beware of faking: people will believe you. People believe those who sell lotions that make lost hair grow back. They sense instinctively that the salesman is putting together truths that don't go together, that he's not being logical, that he's not speaking in good faith. But they've been told that God is mysterious, unfathomable, so to them incoherence is the closest thing to God. The farfetched is the closest thing to miracle.”
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
- MATTHEW 7:15”
Source: Terrible Lies
“Beware of fascist feminism.”
“Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.”
“Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.”
Source: Where the Dark Streets Go
“Beware of finding what you're looking for.
A favorite aphorism he often used.”
“Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed,
Which oft offends the very idol-vice,
Whose shrine it would perfume.”
“Beware of formulas. If there's a God, he's not a God of formulas.”
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”
“Beware of geeks bearing gifts”
Source: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
“Beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.”
“Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.”