Quotes About Wisdom

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.