Quotes About Wisdom

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

Live like there's no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

I don't have to know everything that's gonna happen, I know enough.

Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.