Quotes About Wisdom

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Your library is your paradise.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive...

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Pregnancy and birth knit womankind together. Help weave a gorgeous thread to add to the fabric. Be supportive. Be kind. Be wise. Be open.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

My father used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Trust is like broken glass, sometimes it's better to leave it broken than to cut yourself trying to rebuild it.

Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra has a hundred, You and I, only two.

The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing.

Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand

Krishna replies that nothing is wasted or destroyed in the cosmos. All efforts are recorded and they impact future lives. Knowledge acquired in the past plays a role in the wisdom of future lives.

when a man praises himself, it is intellectual suicide.

dharma is not about justice; it is about empathy and wisdom. Dharma is not about defeating others, it is about conquering ourselves. Everybody wins in dharma.

Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra has a hundred, And You and I, only two .".