Quotes About Wisdom

Dont' try to own problems or faults that aren't yours. It's not a good longterm strategy.

we are every age we have ever been at each moment in our lives. We carry it all with us like luggage.

he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

A leader gathered his thoughts before he spoke; he did not rush to the podium to be adored. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.

it was one of the frickin' Golden Girls:

Life is crazy. The foolish thing is thinking it isn't.

Why did people always learn things about themselves too late, he thought.

TODOS LOS REYES SON CIEGOS. LOS BUENOS LO SABEN Y USAN MÁS QUE SUS OJOS PARA GOBERNAR.

Entonces vamos, Manello. Vamos hacia la noche, hacia los nuevos conocimientos.

With regard to threats against you. I would care to apprise you of a certain individual you would be wise to watch with care." Wrath cocked an eyebrow over the rim of his wraparound. "Do tell.

Reality is like a coin. It has a front and a back, and you can only see one side at a time.

A very wise person once told me . . . lie to anybody you want, just never yourself.

He firmly believed that people were like pieces of meat; the longer they stewed, the softer they became. The tastier, too.

He wasn't mad. Getting angry about the truth was just stupid. It was better to spend your time adapting to it. Far more logical, even if it made tears come to your eyes.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, she added, because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Libraries are medieval forests masking opportunity and danger; every aisle is a path, every catalog reference a clue to the location of the Holy Grail. It is here that I become privy to the sacred songs of kings and the ballads of rogues. Here are tales of life-and-death struggles of other wayfarers as they battle personal dragons and woo fair maidens. Walking down this hallway, I am a knight entering the forest in search of the truth...

Actually, the best traders have no ego.

When asked what he thought the average trader did wrong, Tom Baldwin, who in the days before electronic trading was the largest individual trader in the Treasury bond pit, replied, "They trade too much. They don't pick their spots selectively enough.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

the cessation of your pain and sorrow will depend on how well you overcome your ignorance of your True Self that lives within you.

22  ââ'¬Å"These wise ones have transcended the pairs of opposites; they are the same in success or failure, indifferent to loss or gain; they never bother to compete or compare, are free of envy, and contentedly shoulder whatever comes to them. They too are not bound by karmic consequences even though performing worldly actions.

42  ââ'¬Å"O Prince, your ignorance of your True SelfWithin is the cause of your present reluctance to act, just as the opposite of ignorance, Self-knowledge, would bring fearless action. So with the sword of wisdom sever the doubts in your heart. Arise, O best of men, take your stand. Be a warrior!

Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.