Quotes About Wisdom

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can't work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don't understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I've been.

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.