Quotes About Wisdom

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

To learn, you must understand what you do not know. It is not enough to know you do not understand.

Never burn a bridge unless your foe is on it, captain.

Votever hyu say, meester "I'm so schmot I don't gotta make sense.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.

Think lightly of yourself and think deeply of the world. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. INDIAN PROVERB (PUNJABI)

Suzuki had just finished giving a talk to a group of Zen students when someone in the audience said, "You've been talking about Buddhism for nearly an hour, and I haven't been able to understand a thing you said. Could you say one thing about Buddhism I can understand?" After the laughter died down, Suzuki replied calmly, "Everything changes.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Ancient people, we don't just need to find out what things they made, how they lived. We need to see through their eyes, sense what they sensed… aware that their senses would have been much sharper than ours… accepting that they might well have been aware of things we no longer perceive.

even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Never promote someone who hasn't made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything.

O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie, gimme a break before I die: grant me wisdom, will, & wit, purity, probity, pluck, & grit. Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, gimme great abs & a steel-trap mind, and forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice— these little blessings would suffice to beget an earthly paradise: make the bad people good— and the good people nice; and before our world goes over the brink, teach the believers how to think.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

We left Vietnam peculiar creatures, with young shoulders that bore rather old heads.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Richard would now often stay out in the desert after it had gotten dark. Mike had taught him how to read the stars, and he never got lost.

Dzogchen Tantra when it suggests: 'As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere. Like a deer that finds a quiet place to graze, seek seclusion to digest all that you have gathered. Like a mad one beyond all limits, go where you please and live like a lion, completely free of all fear.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.