Quotes About Wisdom

Anger without power is folly.

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

Never give advice unless asked.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

You know nothing John Snow" -- the wildling Ygritte

Gamaliel Bradford that "sacred as both are, the law of love is higher than the law of truth. For this there is a perfectly simple and unassailable reason, that truth at its best is deceiving, but love is never. We toil and tire ourselves and sacrifice our lives for the dim goddess Truth. Then she eludes us, slips away from us, mocks at us. But love grows firmer and surer and more prevailing as the years pass by.

The first line says, "Be at all times without deluded thoughts arising." Deluded thoughts are the same thing as dichotomous thoughts, dualistic thoughts.

It doesn't matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I just tell you, and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Ma io avevo più letto libri che vissuto giorni, nel mio così fuggitivo, così inefficace passaggio lungo le strade degli uomini.

When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence.

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.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy

Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit. (He knows nothing who does not profit from what he knows.)

Every day we lose something; one of the illusions, which are our only riches, perishes or diminishes. Experience or truth divests us every day of part of our possessions. We do not live, except in losing.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.