Quotes About Wisdom

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side