Quotes About Wisdom

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

I am never afraid of what I know.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

We fear only what we haven't understood.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.