Quotes About Wisdom

In this way, pain can be a great teacher, which educates us how to live with it and eventually say goodbye.

There is a biblical phrase "an eye for an eye," a philosophy of revenge, not justice. But Mahatma Ghandi warned that in a world ruled by an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind.

If citta is the sea, its movements (vrttis) are the ripples. Body, mind and consciousness are in communion with the soul; they are now free from attachments and aversions, memories of place and time. The impurities of body and mind are cleansed, the dawning light of wisdom vanquishes ignorance, innocence replaces arrogance and pride, and the seeker becomes the seer. Vibhuti

Use your head for something more than to give your hat a ride, can't you?

nothing does he hold the medalla oro." "Gracias, Don Andres. I shall remember," said Jack, and walked away to the stables. He felt that the heart of Don Andres Picardo was warring with his intelligence. That although his wide outlook and his tolerance

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Even that which is untrue, if accepted as true by the world, especially by the elders, becomes the truth. It is publicity-of a fault or virtue that bears fruit as ill repute or fame. The actual truth may earn its reward in the hereafter, but that is of no use here.

Everything can be a trap. A hermit goes to a cave to get out of all worldly attachments and then gets attached to the cave. If we miss the point, then everything becomes a trap.

Q: How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.

Human birth is the highest. It is for attaining liberation. If we don't consciously try for liberation, then we are misusing our human birth.

Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

Naïveté, thy name is me.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El Conocimiento es Poder" (Francis Bacon)

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.

Libraries ... are as the shrines where all the relics of ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men's hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction; and when it can handle things, in such manner, as no evil shall appear so peremptory, but that it hath some outlet of hope; which is the less hard to do, because both particular persons and factions, are apt enough to flatter themselves, or at least to brave that, which they believe not.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience.

So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves in thinking the greatest means to be best, when it should be the fittest.

He that hath a satirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, so he need be afraid of others' memory.

The errors of young men, are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

An ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.