Quotes About Wisdom

Anger begins with folly and ends with regret-

Some American writer said that it was a sign of intellectual maturity to be able to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time.

Christ and Buddha

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss -ssso much compressed wisdom.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? —BHAGAVAD GITA

When an untoward event occurs in your life, react to it without haste or passion.

The saying used to go 'what you don't know can't hurt you,' but it's changed in this world.  Now it's 'what you don't know can eat you.' From

Listen, I'm going to give you some advice, not because I think you need it, but because I feel like I've earned it. The right, I mean. To give advice. Here it is: don't hold onto things. It's a problem the men in my family have. It's taken me a long time to figure this out. Me, my father, my grandfather, we collect things. We collect miseries. It's what we do. But sometimes the best thing to do is to just let things go. To let them pass.

There is an old Latin saying, "Qui docet, discit" (He who teaches, learns). In many

I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don't have to turn you stupid. That's a choice, like wearing green stretch pants.

T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.

Joe Schwarcz

También sabía ahora que el gran secreto de la felicidad es aceptar la vida, no controlarla.

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

We humans, especially physicians, are notorious for interfering with nature, thinking we know better. Sometimes we do—all too often we don't.

basis for decision making (Proverbs 29:25).

Azt, amikor a szellem széttöri a bilincseit, menekülést keres, és szabadságra vágyik. Ez tehát a boldogság, egyben azonban elszakadás a földi dolgoktól, s a legnagyobb bölcsesség is. Az igazi boldogság az éntÅ'l való megszabadulás, a szeretÅ'k boldogsága, akiket Platón mindenki közül a legboldogabbnak nevez.

Az egész reneszánsz ezt a vágyképet dédelgette, fák alatt meghúzódó, h?vös házban jó és bölcs barátok csendes, der?s, mégis komoly társalgásának a képét. Nyugalom és harmónia. Az egész évszázad az egyszer?ség, Å'szinteség, igazság és természetesség megvalósítására törekedett.

il filosofo è tanto più bestia quanto più vuol esser dio

We see so much that we in fact see nothing, and we know so much that we no longer possess anything that is our own, that is to say, something we could not have learned, something that arises out of the virtues and errors of our own self.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Teach me, chile, and I shall Learn. Take me, chile, and I shall Escape. Focus my eyes, chile, and I shall See. Consume more chiles. I feel no pain, for the chile is my teacher. I feel no pain, for the chile takes me beyond myself. I feel no pain, for the chile gives me sight. —Transcendental Capsaicinophilic Society, "Litany Against Pain

Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.