Quotes About Wisdom

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

While you teach, you learn.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.