Quotes About Wisdom

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

To notice people's deceptions yet not reveal it in words, to bear people's insults without showing any change of attitude-there is endless meaning in this, and also endless function.

I think cats would have an even worse attitude if they found out how stupid their names were.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.

you should never prepare for old age, just let it happen and deal with it when it does.

Just be careful. Learn your lessons well, and always follow your instincts.