Quotes About Wisdom

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

Time is the great art of man.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Be respectful of your Sensei.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.