Quotes About Wisdom

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

He who understands nature walks close with God.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.