Quotes About Wisdom

In my own pursuits I have drawn heavily from four traditional yoga texts: the Siva Samhita, the Goraksa Sataka, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines as translated by Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

Both anger and alcohol put people in the position where, paradoxically, they have knowledge that moves them to act but also lack the wisdom needed to act well.

Christopher Young

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Christmas Air Christmas Air means peace, knowledge and wisdom.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.

Joy, anger, grief, delight, worry, regret, fickleness, inflexibility, modesty, willfulness, candor, insolence—music from empty holes, mushrooms springing up in dampness, day and night replacing each other before us, and no one knows where they sprout from. Let it be! Let it be!

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there?

Be cautious of what is within you; block off what is outside you, for much knowledge will do you harm.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.It receives but does not keep.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

The sound of water says what I think.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?