Quotes About Wisdom

He who hesitates is lost - replace fear with faith, faith give rise to the greatest power - Instinctive Wisdom

Remember: when you are "You" - That is enlightenment.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

A truce with monsters, mediated by a fool.

I'm a librarian, not a leader." "You're both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.

So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

No matter what you do, be careful of what you say and if you happen to say it, do it.

Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

for he felt moved by forces that weren't necessarily visible or easily explainable. Coming to Burma had only amplified those leanings. "There are ways of knowing things quite certainly but not by reason," he would write, "and in the East both the wise and the simple accept this.

Physical beauty will fade over time, but true beauty (virtue) is timeless.

Such was the malleability of the Buddha's message, which eschewed dogma and blind faith. "Treat my teachings like gold. Test them and shape them into an ornament to suit each particular wearer", he said.

The purpose of life is to realize our spiritual nature. And to do that one has to go away and practise, to reap the fruits of the path, otherwise you have nothing to give anyone else.

It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.'

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

We only see a speck of what's happening in our lives, but God sees the whole picture.

One does not learn how to die by killing others.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.