Quotes About Wisdom

If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

It is a pity the spirit does not grow old too.

Ng??i ?àn bà thông thái ?y h?n là gi? ?ây ?ang nh? l?i tu?i xuân c?a mình, cái tu?i xuân mà, nh? l?i hát trong các bài dân ca c?a chúng tôi, d?u có ??ng trên ??nh núi cao nh?t c?ng không sao g?i th?u

Perfect morality can be declared and lived up to only by him who has sought to live and discover his real identity with the Self, which is ONE-WITHOUT-A-SECOND, EVERYWHERE, IN ALL BEINGS AND FORMS.

M????kya? eka? kevala? mumuk?u??? vimuktaye).

Indeed, certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; therefore, over the inevitable, you should not grieve.

To [Chinese], war does not revolve around fighting. It is about determining the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict.

Have love in your heart, but be smart and express your compassion with restraint and detachment.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

An angry man is always a stupid man.

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

A chief does not hurry.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

I don't care about age very much.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.