Quotes About Wisdom

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Contentment with our life as it is brings a feeling of great lightness, for we lose the burden of continually craving for situations and people to be different. Things are as they are. Refusing to accept this creates dukkha and brings pain. It is like pushing against a sealed door. We push and we push until our hands hurt, but we cannot open it. If we are wise, we accept that this is simply how it is. The door is sealed, and it is perfectly all right that it is so.

Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.

Not to learn from our experiences is a tremendous waste of time. Life is an adult-education school.

It is not that we kill or annihilate something that actually exists; rather, we get rid of a deluded mind-state.

The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.

The goal of the Buddha's teaching is Nibb?na (Sanskrit: Nirv??a). Literally translated, that means "not burning," or in other words, the loss of all passions.

The beaten time can't back but try to make it more valuable than money

Ben ÅŸuna inan?r?m; bir insan sürekli kitap okursa yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ okuduÄŸu kitaplar yüzüne iÅŸlenir, çirkinler bile yüzlerine iÅŸlenen kitapla güzelleÅŸir, sevimlileÅŸir.

The Buddha's teaching of the Dharma was called "Good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference.

High living and high thinking are poles apart.

Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man.

In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting in his benevolence against the misuse of the delegated power and in his wisdom to govern justly and make war successfully.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.' This saying, quoted of Bismarck,