Quotes About Wisdom

Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

For it is written that if the wise man appears always stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

Sometimes, a man must muster all of his courage simply to sit still. How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend? How much?

We Ask the Gods for Answers and They Give Us Questions

Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

he looked like one of those dried-up faces you carve out of an apple in third grade to teach you that time is cruel and we are all just going to shrivel up and die, so there's no point in getting out of bed.

He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

Solo estando preparado para tu muerte puedes vivir plenamente».

If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey

You see, my plan is working. For it is written that 'if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

Get in, get out, and nobody gets hurt, as Uncle Harlan always said, something he picked up in Vietnam.

There's no such thing as a conservative hero.' He was wise, that old man.

Ah, já entendi - disse eu. - É uma parábola. Que giro. Vamos comer.

Parables were never my strong suit. If you wan to say something, say it. So, of course, Joshua and Buddhists were the perfect people to hang out with, straight talkers that they were.

Doing what he wanted to do and his boundless affinity for everything made Clay Demodocus a happy guy, but he was also shrewd enough not to be too open about his happiness. Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.

Blessed are the dumbfucks

but no one is more heavily burdened than a guy who thinks he knows a thing.

My experience weighs on me far more than my years show.

Las tres joyas del taoísmo son la compasión, la moderación y la humildad…

cuanto antes confiesas tus errores, antes puedes irte a cometer más.

What does the Tao value above all else?" "Compassion? Those other two jewel things?" "No, inaction. Contemplation. Steadiness. Conservatism. A wall is the defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.