Quotes About Wisdom

Silence isn't always golden; sometimes it's just yellow.

To lead or attempt to lead without first having a knowledge of self is foolhardy and is sure to bring disaster and defeat.

If you think your honor demands you kill every dog that barks at you...you will only find yourself spending all your time chasing dogs. There is no honor in that.

Let bygones be bygones, but we cannot and should not forget.

I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Do you know how to pick a lock?' 'Not in the least, I'm afraid.' 'I often wonder what we go to school for,' said Wimsey.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

The young do not know what they do when they withdraw themselves from the old. Life, light and hope seemed to have gone with these three.

When we package the Dharma in a flashy box with no contents, we offer only the skin of Dharma. It might be better for authentic Dharma to die than to establish large groups and spew out teachers regurgitating sound bites like those that sell special transient mind-states as the Buddha mind.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Let jealousy be your teacher. Jealousy can lead you to the very places where you most need healing.

We all have some screws loose, common sense and intelligence can diminish that

Over the last 10 years, we've learned that there's still no better way to succeed in college than to be well read.