Quotes About Wisdom

In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.

Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Never miss a chance to shut up

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, '68, '70, would you do things differently?

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Chance favours the trained mind.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don't have to feel it's happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long

Thich Nhat Hanh says, "It's not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

This very moment is the perfect teacher.

But the truth is that we can never avoid uncertainty. This not knowing is part of the adventure, and it's also what makes us afraid. Bodhichitta