Quotes About Wisdom

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

If you can read this thank a teacher.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you'll do your best thinking that way. And that's why I've always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don't go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert

The next generation never learns anything from the previous one until it's brought home with a hammer. I've wondered why the next generation can't profit from the generation before but they never do until they get knocked in the head by experience.

Always nice to have an officer who can see past the end of his beard

A book can transform your life and add new dimensions to the way you think.

Unrequited love is beautiful, its so beautiful that it teaches you a lot of lessons that you could never have learnt other wise, for example you really can feel money cant buy you happiness. No amount of money can make her love you back.

A good book, the most important resource in the world.

They said, "Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise." (Surat al-Baqara, 32)

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Cuá»™c ??i ta thay ??i theo hai cách: qua nh?ng ng??i ta g?p và qua nh?ng cu?n sách ta ??c.

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

The key to all mysteries and the source of all Illumination lies deep within the self. ROSICRUCIAN MANUSCRIPT

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. TAO TE CHING (600 B.C.E.)

Generally we study too much and think too little.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.