Quotes About Wisdom

It is only the depth of character that determines the profundity with which we face life. We can either add to our character each day or we can fritter away our energies in distractions. Those who learn how to accumulate character each day achieve a depth that cannot be successfully opposed.

Go through life without showing off, attracting attention to yourself, or making flamboyant gestures. These will only attract the hostility of others. The wise accomplish all that they want without arousing the envy or scorn of others.

Budist? ?sitikinimu, vyras ir moteris turi tobul?ti t?kstant? met?, tik tada juodu sudarys karm?,leidžian?i? pad?ti galvas ant tos pa?ios pagalv?s.

I don't live by the fuckin Dow Jones anymore. I live by the Tao, Jones.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age.

Whenever you study or contemplate the Dharma, Rely not on the words, but on the meaning. If the meaning is understood, then regardless of the speaker's style, There will be no conflict.

He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, "Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.

Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do comprehend.

If not, you'll just keep falling into holes until you can grasp the gift cosmos keeps on trying to give you.

tradition is the guru, the person who turns darkness (gu) into light (ru). The guru, in other words, is a teacher.

Knowing there's a reason for what happens also saves us from being filled with blame.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself.

The Soul Mind. Dominant in the menstrual phase, the phase of bleeding, and experienced when we rest as a deep sense of oneness, connection and spiritual wisdom.

I would always be earthbound; he hadn't robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this...as opposed to some other way? ...If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I wanted to be the kind of teacher who learned from her students.

They seem easy to write, but that's the illusion of all good advice. Common sense and truth should feel authorless, write by time itself.

Era epoca redescoperirii înÈ›elepciunii str?vechi a umanit??ii, epoca spiritelor conjurate de mediumuri groteÈ™ti... Toate acestea erau exuviile unei epoci ce trecea de la tehnologia aburilor la cea a electricit??ii, pentru ca oamenii s? nu uite c? tehnologia È™i magia nu sunt decât feÈ›ele aceleiaÈ™i medalii, c? în mintea lor primitiv-sofisticat? miracolul tehnologiei era mereu contrabalansat de tehnologia miracolului.

Doamne, s? avem iertare, Da la noi un oarecare N?scocitor nu s? È™tie În nice-o academie. Acilea toÈ›i nainteaz? Dupe ani, nu dupe vaz?, Dox? ai ori dox? n-ai, EÈ™ti doftor la treij-de ai, La patruzeci înv??at, La cincizeci om luminat, Iar d-agiungi la È™aptezeci La nemuritori tu treci.

Después de leer decenas de miles de libros, no puedes evitar preguntarte: ¿dónde ha estado mi vida durante todo este tiempo?