Quotes About Wisdom

He did not want his son to be all for present success, as the American, or to be all for tradition, as is the Englishman, but he thought the two might find a happy meeting place in a mind not yet well formed.

muddy water is often made clear if allowed to stand still.

The written word for the trouble is two women beneath one rooftree, and I greatly fear that the wise man who invented writing had knowledge that cost him dear. Perhaps he, too, had a daughter-in-law.

Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.

Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's." -Cynna

Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's.

He was too old to believe in fairy tales. Right didn't make might, bad things did happen to good people, and determination didn't always win the day.

With those thousand deaths come a thousand births. Ten thousand, if we're alive enough to notice. Drink whatever comes to you, death or life or both together, drink it down, whether the draught be sweet or bitter. If you refuse the one, you won't be able to taste the other.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

The King, who excelled all the princes of his time in wisdom and greatness of soul, did not suffer difficulty to deter him or danger to daunt him from anything that had to be taken up or carried through, for he-had trained himself to bear and endure whatever came, without yielding in adversity, or trusting to the deceitful favors of fortune in prosperity.

Live life like Janus, the two faced gods of the gate, look at past and at the same time the future. Not to remember past hurts and failures but to enable you get to the future

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, we come to know all things made out of iron: that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is iron- so through that spiritual wisdom, dear one, we come to know that ll of life is one.

At the first gate, the gatekeeper asks, "Is this true?" At the second gate, he asks, "Is it kind?" And at the third gate, "Is it necessary?" If we applied this proverb strictly, most of us would have very little to say. I am not recommending silence, however, but control over our speech.

There is a tale of a man who found on the road a large stone bearing the words, "Under me lies a great truth." The man strained to turn the stone over and finally succeeded. On the bottom was written, "Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience." —John Dewey

Enlighten your life with history.

it is always better to count your blessings instead of airing your complaints; wisdom doesn't come cheap; nothing is impossible to a willing heart; and love is never afraid of giving too much.

I felt experienced without feeling that I, personally, had been through anything.