Quotes About Wisdom

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

You don't win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

The best cure for anger is delay.

An angry man is always a stupid man.