Wisdom Quotes

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Years teach us more than books.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.