Quotes About Wisdom

Si es un tonto y llega a hacerse rico, será el rey de los tontos. Si es generoso y llega a hacerse rico, será más generoso.

We are being taught by everything around us to have dessert before dinner." Now we are paying for our lack of knowledge and discipline.

cuanto más pronto usted comprenda que nadie se hace rico rápidamente usando información secreta, tanto mejor.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

One of my pastors says that living right is not complicated; it may be difficult, but it is not complicated.

Ninety percent of making the right decision is the gathering of information. The bigger the decision, the more time you take, the more options you gather, and the more informed you should become.

The good thing about principles is that they make life easy. I have heard it said that when someone bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Es parte de la naturaleza humana desear algo y desearlo ya; es también un signo de inmadurez.

Si el consumidor estuviera libre de deudas y viviera dentro de los límites de sus recursos, su confianza estaría bien fundada.)

It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Stupid is not illegal.

I tell everyone never to take more than a fifteen-year fixed-rate loan, and never have a payment of over 25 percent of your take-home pay. That is the most you should ever borrow.

Someone who never has fun with money misses the point. Someone who never invests money will never have any. Someone who never gives is a monkey with his hand in a bottle.

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A journey of self-discovery is never pointless, Prince Zuko. However dim your path may seem, and however far you may wander from it...the important thing is that you learn from all of your mistakes along the way and never forget for one moment who you are, or what you are struggling to be.

Trust me, beaut fades, but dumb is forever.

There are at least four essential elements composing the foundation of the enlightenment process: purification, concentration, effort, and mastery.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

One day the Buddha came across an ascetic who sat by the bank of a river, and who had practiced austerities for twenty-five years. The Buddha asked him what he had got out of all his labor. The ascetic proudly replied that now at last he could cross the river by walking on the water. The Buddha tried to point out that this was little gain for so much labor, since for one penny the ferry would take him across.

Enlightenment does not end with an attainment; it is a continuous unfolding.

It was a though we'd been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

We are by now so accustomed to the cult of expertise that the very notion of honoring and paying heed to our directly felt experience of things—of insects and wooden floors, of broken-down cars and bird-pecked apples and the scents rising from the soil—seems odd and somewhat misguided as a way to find out what's worth knowing.

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you're stupid and make bad choices.

ANY NATION THAT FAILS TO LEARN FROM HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT THAT HISTORY.