Quotes About Wisdom

Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed" ~ John D. Rockefeller

It is one thing to stand on the comfortable ground of placid inaction and put forth words of cynical wisdom, and another to plunge into the work itself and through strenuous experience earn the right to express strong conclusions.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

Do not intend to make a buddha.…

you begin to realize that The Mountains and Rivers Sutra is not a sutra about mountains and rivers, but rather that the mountains and rivers are themselves the sutra.

that we may each hear the calling of the bell, live more fully in reality, and nourish one another with wisdom's complete confidence and compassion's tender and soothing hands.

Fundamentally, Zen is a way of seeing clearly who we are and what our life is, and a way of living based on that clear vision.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

Good ideas do not need to be shouted. They can take care of themselves.

One of the unfortunate facts about being interested in nearly everything is that the depth of your knowledge is bound to remain inversely proportional to its range; the more you know en masse, the less you tend to know about a particular, narrow topic.

A beautiful mind is worth more then a pretty face

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding and Wisdom

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

So welcome the wind and the wisdom she offers, follow her summons when she calls again. In your heart and your spirit, let the breezes surround you. Lift up your voice then and sing with the wind.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his success.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

An educated person is the person who has the power to go on and get more education.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.