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Wisdom Quotes
"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech."
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"Gilks sighed. 'You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,' he said, 'but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid."
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"In terms of experience, we want to make this (referring to the self) very pleasant. We want this to be blissful, ecstatic. But, as I said before, even being ecstatic is not goal by itself. If you are blissful by your own nature, then the important thing is that you are no more the issue. There are other issues in this existence; we can look at those. But if you are an issue, what other issue will you take in your hands? You will not touch anything. When I am enough trouble myself, why do I want to take on this one or that one? When I am no more an issue, now I am willing to dig into the whole existence and see what it is all about."
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"Never test another man by your own weakness."
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"Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things."
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"There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world."
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"Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts."
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"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age."
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"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
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"When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it."
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"Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne."
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
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"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
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"As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building."
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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"God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own."
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"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy."
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"A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom."
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"I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
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"It is much more challenging to accept those who know a lot than those who know little."
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"Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!"
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