Quotes About Wisdom

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

One swallow never makes a summer.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

Background for Humans

All babies are Buddha babies.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

Nature does not have to insist.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument