Quotes About Wisdom

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

We all need to be philosophical if we going to traverse the journey of life.

An unexamined life is not worth living...

To see the good things of this life, it took me a long time to discover with every philosophical thought I had.

When everything seems so wrong, your life isn't falling apart. God is rebuilding it to make you stronger and wiser.

Those who seek growth, embrace life and learn from the journey.

One of the greatest things in life may not be life itself, but the knowledge of how to live that life.

Ive made a lot of mistakes in my life, but you have to make mistakes in order to learn from them. therefore, I learn something new every day.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

We learn not in the school, but in life

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.