Quotes About Wisdom

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Let reason govern desire.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

A small heart hath small desires.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.