Quotes About Wisdom

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

The came of the instinctive heaven Is attained through experience and sweat.