Quotes About Wisdom

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

When you get to a certain age, you don't get lost. If you have a good set of pals around about you can have a great life.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.

Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.