Quotes About Wisdom

We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!

Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

Count your summers, not your winters.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

seesth thou a man tha isn't GRATEFUL? He is a GREAT FOOL

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.