Quotes About Wisdom

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Learn from the purity of nature.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.