Quotes About Wisdom

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you're stupid.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Read, read read. Read everything.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Be A Famous Person Is Difficult, But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been "a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.