Quotes About Wisdom

One cool judgement is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon.

If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

I recently turned 60 years old. Practically a third of my life is over.

As the poet said, "only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

Buddhism is a beautiful philosophy, but above all, it is about action.

There's no way out of this mess, except to become enlightened and then enjoy it. —Robert Thurman A

Buddhism clearly explains that suffering emerges in our hearts because we forget the principle of impermanence and believe that what we possess will last forever.

Buddhism teaches us to recognize these cycles of impermanence and have the courage to accept them.