Quotes About Wisdom

Perhaps the next step in our evolutionary process is not forward but back to the wisdom of ancient traditions. Perhaps the ultimate wisdom of our Wise Adult selves is not ours as individuals but draws from the collective wisdom of humanity over centuries. It's been called by many names—Chi, the Tao, Buddha Nature, and if you haven't slept through decades of Star Wars films, the Force.

You teach what you want to learn.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.

Remedy it or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.

Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves.

Let right be your light May you always burn bright Glowing the path for others.

Be careful not to drown in a mirage.

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.

The devil needs no convincing of the poison in your elixir. But did you really think you had medicine?

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

My life's entwined by curly quote marks Clever phrases and profound remarks....

Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful or smart to say, not if it's just spouting fear.

You're not quite sure what it means but the words are so beautiful you know it must be profound.

You can never worry your way to enlightenment.

My younger passions are still listening, as I age.

Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm.

A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.