Quotes About Wisdom

Ogni conoscenza è preziosa, che abbia o no la minima utilità per l'uomo.

Old Korean adage, Even jade has flaws. Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

Any attempt to improve on God's creation will distance you from God's creation

when the student is ready, the teacher appears

The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.

newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash. While we may be tempted to look outside ourselves for advice, we are all quite brilliant and know a lot more about our path and destiny than we recognize.

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.

Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.

Therefore the wise are guided by what they feel and not by what they see, Letting go of that and choosing this. —12

You are here to thrive as a soul. It will be a great day when we train children to pass SQ—spiritual quotient—tests. Then we will be teaching genuine intelligence that will advance humanity in the most important way.

You are good not for what you do, but for who you are. When you recognize your deep inherent value, you make wise decisions that lead to greater good for you and everyone involved. Lao Tse would say, "Trust what you are, and all that you do will bless the world.

Time reveals character.

while most readers recognize the profound wisdom imbued in Tao Te Ching, the language remains mysterious to many. Utter simplicity can seem confusing to the complicated mind.

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all your lessons; joy is your lesson

Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.

Without going outside, you may know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the wise know without traveling; See without looking; Work without doing.

Love is natural. Cynicism is learned. Come home.

The answer is simpler than you think.

A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it.

Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.

My mommy always said there were no such things as monsters. No real ones. But there are.