Quotes About Wisdom

we shall never again try to convince a fool by reason, for it is both useless and dangerous.

It will always be true that the wisest course for the disciple is...to abide solely by the Word of God in all simplicity.

Perception, knowledge, and truth without love are nothing. They are not truth, for truth is God, and God is love. Therefore, truth without love is a lie.

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

Cuvântul potrivit se naÈ™te din t?cere È™i t?cerea potrivit? se naÈ™te din cuvânt.

Dietrich von Hildebrand

Al igual que las nubes que se forman en el cielo permanecen cierto tiempo en él y luego se disuelven en el vacío del espacio, los pensamientos ilusorios surgen, duran un momento y después se desvanecen en la vacuidad de la mente. De hecho no ha pasado realmente nada.

Don't follow after the object of hatred, look at the angry mind. Anger liberated by itself as it arises is mirrorlike wisdom. Don't chase after the object of pride, look at the grasping mind. Self-importance liberated as it arises is the wisdom of equanimity. Don't hanker after the object of desire, look at the craving mind.

Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have the opportunity to practice dharma, do not waste a single moment on anything else.

When ignorance disappears, so too does the distiction between self and others.

Immerse yourself in the meaning of the teachings, day after day, month after month, and the spiritual qualities of a bodhisattva will develop without difficulty, like honey collecting in the hive as the bees go from flower to flower, gathering nectar.

Do not waste a single moment, like a warrior who, pierced to the heart by an arrow, knows he has only few minutes to live. It is now, while we are in good health and in possession of all our physical and mental faculties, that we should practice dharma.

La futilité des préoccupations mondaines leur apparaissait dans toute son évidence.

Nous devrions moins nous inquiéter de notre apparence physique et chercher davantage à ne pas gaspiller notre vie.

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

Perché con tutta la tua intelligenza tu sei l'uomo più stupido che io abbia mai incontrato. [...]

ama insan hayatta her istedi?ini elde edemez ki, mant?kl? olmak gerek...

El caballo trota alegremente, el día es bueno, el aire tibio y ligero, la vida aún larga por delante, casi está por empezar. [...] Se vuelve así lentamente una página, se extiende al lado opuesto, agregándose a las otras ya acabadas, por ahora es sólo una capa fina, las que quedan por leer son, en comparación, un montón inagotable. Pero de todos modos es siempre una página gastada, mi teniente, una porción de vida.

It is preferable that the wise man should set up his residence there where the crowd of imbeciles and fools it is the largest

The intelligent man should see to it that his friends are immortal, his enemies mortal.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.