Quotes About Wisdom

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

Intuition works best when you remember that "tuition" is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

The main thing is strategy. It's not just come in and duke it out and fight.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

I like guys who can use strategy, not just tough guys.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.