Quotes About Wisdom

To change your mind and defer to correction is not to sacrifice your independence; for such an act is your own, in pursuance of your own impulse, your own judgement, and your own thinking.

Don't bind yourself, with the chains of desire and fear, to things that are outside your sphere of control. This is a matter of sanity." —Epictetus

Wisdom is knowledge of good and bad; courage is knowledge of what to fear and what not to fear; moderation is knowledge of what to pursue and what to avoid; justice is knowledge of what to give or what not to give others.

What do you want, rational minds or irrational?" Rational minds. "What sort of rational minds, calm or disturbed?" Calm. "How can you acquire calm, rational minds?" We already have them. "Really? Then why are you squabbling among yourselves?" —Socrates

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So what should one take seriously? Only the following: a just mind, socially useful actions, speech that only ever tells the truth, and the ability to welcome everything that happens as necessary

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Nothing is so productive of greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and truthfully each thing we encounter in life, and to see these things in such a way as to comprehend the nature of the Cosmos.

Estás viendo qué pocas son las cosas que debe uno dominar para poder vivir una vida próspera y respetuosa con la divinidad, porque los dioses no exigirán nada más al que mantenga esto.

No actues en la idea de que vas a vivir diez mil años. La necesidad ineludible pende sobre ti. Mientras vives, mientras es posible, se virtuoso.

If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage. And suppose you can't do that either. Then where does blaming people get you? No pointless actions.

the term of your time is circumscribed, and that unless you use it to attain calm of mind, time will be gone and you will be gone and the opportunity to use it will not be yours again.

Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.

How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.

Neopovrhuj smrÃ…Â¥ou, ale spriate? sa s ?ou, lebo aj ona je jedným z toho, ?o chce prirodzenosÃ…Â¥.

No que toca a tua sede por livros, apressa-te em repudiá-la para que não venhas a morrer em murmúrios e resmungos, mas sim de uma maneira propícia e autêntica e agradecendo de coração aos deuses.8

He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature of the world.

Now a man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also, unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after. Try

the Imitation of Christ.

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too—ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.

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He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

What is the best way to avenge a wrong? If you retaliate in kind, returning evil for evil, your attacker succeeds in dragging you down to their level. Instead, take the insult or injury and transform it into a means of becoming a better person. This is the only true vengeance.

Aprendí de Alejandro el gramático el no censurar; no zaherir a quienes se les fue un barbarismo, un solecismo o cualquier viciosa pronunciación; sino anunciar con maña aquella única palabra que convenía proferir, bajo la forma de una respuesta, de una confirmación o de una deliberación sobre el fondo mismo, no sobre la forma, o por otro medio apropiado de hábil sugerencia.