Quotes About Wisdom

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

Is that all I have to look forward to? Comfort? I think I should prefer to be happy." "As you grow older, there is a lot to be said for being comfortable, ma'am. But I don't expect you to believe me. When I was your age I too wanted to be happy.

In the end to add to the sum of human knowledge is the only thing a man can be truly proud of.

To be a queen, you have to be more than a little girl with a crown." – Lady Flora Hastings

Whoever has a perfect vision of one thing, Has the perfect vision of all things, For the emptiness of one thing Is the emptiness of all things. – Aryadeva

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

Education and the warm heart–if you combine these two, then your education, your knowledge, will be constructive. You are yourself then becoming a happy person.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Someone who doesn't know history, he says, is "in the literal sense half-witted . . . He does not know what half his own words mean, or what half his own actions signify.

understanding the facts is more important than knowing the facts. But

An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth.3 The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." This

In an age of universal education, nobody knows where anything comes from. The

In order to know the truth it is necessary to desire the truth, especially the truth that you do not know.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.