Quotes About Wisdom

Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it.

O que Weylin dissera? Que ser educada não significava ser esperta. Ele tinha certa razão. Nada na minha educação ou no conhecimento do futuro havia me ajudado a escapar.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

You will know more of Jesus in one sanctified trial, than in wading through a library of volumes, or listening to a lifetime of sermons.

Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight. -Makino

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are;One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.What is the secret of the trick?How did I get so old so quick?

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

Too clever is dumb.

Elephants are useful friends: they have handles on both ends.

There's nothing that keeps it's youth So far as I know, but a tree and the truth

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~ Ogden Nash

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

The Buddhist teachings move along a graduated path: first the stages of calm abiding and then the stages of deep insight. Through such gradual practices, lamas of the past gave birth to realization in their mental continuum and discovered primordial wisdom. All the qualities that the great masters found, we can attain as well. It all depends on our own efforts, our diligence, our deeper knowing, and our correct motivation. – 17th Karmapa

The frog in the well can't communicate with the ocean creatures, as it knows the depth of the sky. It's because the frog lived inside a cramped and small space, so he knows better than anyone, how precious freedom is.

He only who has lived with the beautiful can die beautifully.

The tea-master, Kobori-Enshiu, himself a daimyo, has left to us these memorable words: "Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.

A master has always something to offer, while we go hungry solely because of our own lack of appreciation.

We should be foolish indeed if we valued their achievement simply on the score of age. Yet we allow our historical sympathy to override our aesthetic discrimination.