Quotes About Wisdom

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.