Quotes About Wisdom

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.

If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

I can read them now, he reflected. I even know how to say "Sturkeys." But he thought it best not to say so; he remembered how his father had said, "Don't you brag," and he had been puzzled and rather stupid in school for several days, because of the stern tone in his voice. What was bragging? It was bad.

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.

Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you . . . but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.

Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

You can hear a lot of things if you put your ear to the ground at eventide.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth

He who has seen the light does not choose to walk in darkness.

Human life when rightly lived is simple ... but it is not rightly lived while it is bound to a complexity of lusts, desires, and wants -- these are not the real life but the burning fever and painful disease which originate in an unenlightened condition of mind.

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.

A sweet and happy soul is the ripened fruit of experience and wisdom, and it sheds abroad the invisible yet powerful aroma of its influence, gladdening the hearts of others, and purifying the world.

A man's sympathy extends just so far as his wisdom reaches, and no further; and a man only grows wiser as he grows tenderer and more compassionate. To narrow one's sympathy is to narrow one's heart, and so to darken and embitter one's life.

The curtailing of one's desires is the beginning of wisdom; their entire mastery its consumption.

Selfhood is the source of suffering; Truth is the source of bliss.

The wisdom of goldilocks and three bears story is applicable to a lot.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn't a voracious reader.