Quotes About Wisdom

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

Wisdom and freedom require the ability to allow the natural flow of emotions to come and go, experiencing emotions but not being controlled by emotions. Always having to prevent or suppress emotions is a form of being controlled by emotions.

Let the kettle boil slowly... For stew boiled in haste is of no use to anyone.

Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.

observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence.

How does one make muddy water clear? Be still, and the water will clear in time. How does one become still? Let everything happen, and stillness appears.

The one who knows when to stop, is free from the dangers of desire, and lives a long and happy life.

Being smart turns people on. Announcing how smart you are turns them off.

No matter what someone tells him, he accepts it by reminding himself, "I won't learn less." What that means is when somebody makes a suggestion or gives you ideas, you're either going to learn more or learn nothing. But you're not going to learn less. Hearing people out does not make you dumber. So, thank them for trying to help.

a wise person learns from their mistakes—a much wiser person learns from someone else's mistakes.

Never wrestle with a pig—because you both get dirty but the pig loves it

Sometimes the better part of valor—and common sense—is saying, "I'll pass.

No one expects you to act on every piece of advice.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

We're thinking too much about educating the mind, and forgetting about the heart and soul.

Tell me something in your native woodland language.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Yep. I'm officially convinced. Crazy and brilliant are the same thing.