Quotes About Wisdom

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Life is a question in the form of an answer

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

The most important things cannot be measured.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Intelligence and genius

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.