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Wisdom Quotes
"Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest hands, and faith has the ablest feet."
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"Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom."
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"Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment."
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"Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk."
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly."
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"It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace."
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"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
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"I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but I need to know." When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
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"Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything."
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"By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property."
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"If you don't look. You can't see."
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"He who thinks little errs much."
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"When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye."
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"Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied."
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"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
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"Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit."
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"Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority."
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"Speech is silvern silence is golden."
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"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."
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"The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice."
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"Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people."
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"The question to ask ourselves; "Would you rather be right or would you rather have peace?" Some battles are worth fighting, and some are not.If being "right" is more important than having peace, and the cause doesn't evolve or enhance life, then we must ask ourselves; "why do I need to be right?"The question to ask in our own lives. At our work, within our homes and in our global community."
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
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"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
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"The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it."
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"Never give up.' This is not sound advice, it is bad advice. You must give up when there is no point in continuing. Then begin a new course. There is no greater failure than not changing course when the time is right to do so."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."
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"Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?"
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"In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay."
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"With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy."
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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
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