Quotes About Wisdom

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

Every old poem is sacred.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

The greatest art is philosophy.

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.