Quotes About Wisdom

Nature is not anthropomorphic.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level.

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.