Quotes About Wisdom

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Smart people focus on the right things.

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I never said half the things I said.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

Things happen. You just have to accept it and move on. I get that from my dad. He's a real chilled character.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.