Quotes About Wisdom

Now almost fifty years have passed since I discovered the I Ching, and I still read it regularly and use it as a guide. The wisdom of the I Ching is inexhaustible. As for the ability to obtain guidance from Tao, well, I don't know how anyone can get along without it.

Once you learn how to work with the I Ching, there will be no need to hopelessly wonder whether or not you should consider a relationship with someone, start a particular business, move to a particular neighborhood, or go to a particular place on vacation, or take a particular action.

Using only the tools of the physical world to find answers to our questions about life is like trying to unlock a door using a banana instead of a key or like using an equation to understand love or sympathy or a thought about Tao.

So everything that has happened to you, that will happen to you, that is happening to you is perfect for you. Treat it that way, and your whole existence will change — perfectly.

I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an updraught.

If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

Never use a chainsaw when a scalpel will do.

Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich.

La felicidad no se ofrece, se aprende o se conquista.

Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

Pythagore - Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

Etudiez comme si vous deviez vivre toujours ; vivez comme si vous devriez mourir demain - Thomas d'Aquin

When words are many, sin is not absent, / but he who holds his tongue is wise (Proverbs 10:19).

Wisdom does not always speak Latin.

According to Chinese and ancient Ayurvedic medicine, at age 60, women end their householder life and begin to develop their souls. Our fertility stops being about having children and starts being about what we create for ourselves that benefits us and the people around us.

My actions should depend on what I know, not what I suspect.

It may make him overconfident. He may make foolish errors.

The paths of Fate are many and varied,and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of if only.What happened,happened;

I am not your kind," Vos said, his voice thick. "I do not feed off vengeance." Truth was quiet. It did not need to shout or to demand. It simply existed. "I am a Jedi.

Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.

How have you managed to survive for so long, Saurfang? Not fallen victim to your own memories?" Saurfang smiled. "I don't eat pork.

Do I wish I had chosen otherwise? Wishes do not a world make. We do the best we can where we are, every minute, every breath. We make mistakes, and we have to live with them. We try to learn from them. And that is all we can do. (Thrall)

One of the things you'll learn, Anduin, is that sometimes you can't always do what you'd like to do. Or even do what you think is the right thing—at least not right away.

We are all weak, in one way or another. It does not matter the species. Sometimes that weakness is a strength in disguise. Sometimes it is our utter undoing. Sometimes it is both. The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him. And sometimes, the wise man is a fool.