Quotes About Wisdom

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.