Quotes About Wisdom

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

The wise man never loses his temper.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.