Quotes About Wisdom

Thus the student leaves by the same door through which he entered, and is no different than before. Yet, having internalized all of his practices, he is totally changed.

Nansen was asked by Joshu, 'What is the Way?' He replied, 'Your everyday mind is the Way [Heijoshin kore do].

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies

Men of few words are the best men.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Good counselors lack no clients.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Patch grief with proverbs

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savor but themselves.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

At your ageThe heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

Fish not, with this melancholy bait,For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)