Quotes About Wisdom

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.

I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life. The most beautiful women - Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Hutton, Ali MacGraw - all embraced the aging process.

The most beautiful learning in my Bigg Boss' journey has been to embrace all shortcomings with grace.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

I much prefer grandmotherhood to motherhood.

As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.

I feel we children learn all the good things from our mothers. They are simply the best.

I like to think I know a lot, but I don't. I'm motivated to learn more.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

If you want to be loved, keep your head on your shoulders and feet on the ground. There is nothing wrong in that. I do the same, and others should also follow this motto.

The gift of clever phrasing may be a curse unless the phrases are put to the test of sound, practical application before being uttered.

Necesitamos aprender de lo obvio, más que indagar en lo oculto. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

As Edmund Burke said, more than two centuries ago, "In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from past errors and infirmities of mankind." But he warned that the past could also be a means of "keeping alive, or reviving, dissensions and animosities.