Quotes About Wisdom

Lo, what said King Solomon, who can teach us so well? 'Do not befriend an angry man, and walk not along the way with a madman, lest you repent.' I will no further say.

The greatest Scholars are not the wisest men,' as once unto the wolf thus spoke the mare. Of all their artifice, I account not a whit.

A great fool is any counselor, serving a Lord of high honor, who dares presume, or even think, that his counsel should surpass his Lord's wit.

For the proverb says, 'He who embraces too much, retains too little.' And Cato says, 'Assay to do only such a thing as you have the power to do, lest the burdensome charge oppress you so sorely that it behooves you to abandon the task you have begun.

As Petrus Alphonsus says, 'If you have the ability to do a thing of which you must later repent, "Nay" is better than "Yea.

Lo, what says Saint Augustine: "There is nothing so like the Devil's child as he who oft chides others." Saint Paul also says, "It behooves the servant of God not to chide.

Speak we now of wicked counsel, for he who gives wicked counsel is a traitor. He deceives the one who trusted in him, as Achitophel did unto Absalom. But, nevertheless, his wicked counsel is first against himself. For, as says the Wise Man, "Every deceitful liar has this property in himself: that he who would harm another man, he harms himself first.

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For Seneca says, 'That man who is nourished by Fortune, she makes of him a great fool.

A wys wyf, if that she kan hir good, Shal beren him on hond the cow is wood.

I may not telle you al at ones:

My sone, God, of his endelees goodnesse, Walled a tonge with teeth and lippes eke, For man sholde him avise what he speeke.

Fools toast each other's wealth, whereas sages toast each other's health.

In yoga . . . many may take one path as a key in order to experience self-realisation while others take another path, but I say that there is absolutely no difference between the various practices of yoga." —B. K. S. Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, p. 15

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

The significance of that 'absolute commandment', know thyself — whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance — is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self. The knowledge it commands means that of man's genuine reality — of what is essentially and ultimately true and real — of spirit as the true and essential bein

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

what is rational is real and what is real is rational

Aber die Philosophie soll keine Erzählung dessen sein, was geschieht, sondern eine Erkenntnis dessen, was wahr darin ist, und aus dem Wahren soll sie ferner das begreifen, was in der Erzählung als ein bloßes Geschehen erscheint.

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