Wisdom Quotes
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Wise men care not for what they cannot have.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
It does not make much difference what a person studies; all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Always remember this: Happiness is from the heart out - not from the world in.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
The wisest men follow their own direction.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
The more you know the less you need to say.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
The one who knows the means makes the impossible possible.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Choices make character and character makes happiness.
When the cat mourns for the mouse do not take her seriously.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
The burned hand teaches best.
