Quotes About Wisdom

Humility! The last trap that awaits the ego in search of absolute truth.

Cheer up, me boyo, it takes a lifetime to grow. People haven't the patience any more.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.

If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

Being is the great explainer.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.