Quotes About Wisdom

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

No furniture is so charming as books.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Live always in the best company when you read.

What you don't know would make a great book.

The heart ages last.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]

Sadness isn't a kilesha , a habit pattern evoked by challenge. Sadness is what the mind feels when it is bereaved or bereft. All the wisdom in the world about the inevitability of change or the lawfulness of karma does not ease the heaviness in the mind that we feel when we lose someone, or something, we hold dear [p. 148].

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don't arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.

Knowing the truth brings happiness.

The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was "Transient are all conditioned things.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf—Tribe Unknown

The Nez Perce say: "Every animal knows more than you do.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. –Lumbee

There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.