Quotes About Wisdom

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?

We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves.

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

The heart knows today what the mind will learn tomorrow.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.