Quotes About Wisdom

the Zen masters always say that you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world, says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.

When we are young, Angela, we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right—not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either.

And now I'm kissing my robes." He lifted a corner of his saffron robes and gave a loud smack. Thinking this was probably some super-arcane religious custom, I asked what he was doing. He said, "Same thing I always do whenever anyone comes to me for relationship advice. I'm just thanking God I'm a monk and I don't have to deal with this stuff anymore.

The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching

At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

But we work with what we know in this life

But as we get older, we learn this sad truth; some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right - not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

no hay nada que no tenga explicación si uno tiene acceso a una biblioteca con buenos libros de referencia.

En lo que tiene fe mi hermana es en el conocimiento. Su sagrada escritura es el diccionario Oxford. Cuando inclina la cabeza sobre el texto, pasando las páginas con sus raudos dedos, está con su Dios.

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself.

You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.

If I'd known then what I know now—namely: that so many of those beautiful young boys would soon be lost to the battlefields of Europe or to the infernos of the South Pacific—I would have had sex with even more of them. If it sounds like I'm being facetious, I'm not.

Asking no further questions is the song of my people.

Todos tenemos algo de lo que arrepentirnos y eso es bueno

Henry that learning things gave a person advantage over other people.

do not be bold. You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Our whole business therefore in this life," wrote Saint Augustine, rather Yogically, "is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

From her mother, Janie learned to play charades and murder in the dark, to run three-legged races, to spot hermit thrushes, towhees (Mrs. P. said the towhee's call was Drink your tea!; Bea said it was Brush your teeth!), and tell prairie warblers from the maryland yellowthroat and the great horned from the barred owl by their calls.

Because I happen to think that being sensitive is the most valuable form of intelligence there is.

Ryle Hira: Life is what it is