«How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.»
Wisdom Quotes
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«It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.» —
«Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.» —
«The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.» —
«By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.» —
«May you live every day of your life.» —
«Turn your wounds into wisdom.» —
«The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.» —
«Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.» —
«Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.» —
«Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.» —
«The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.» —
«I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.» —
«The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.» —
«when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because.» —
«Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. [published in 1979]» —
«God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.» —
«107
To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.
(translated by Brooks Haxton)» —
«He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.» —
«7
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
(translated by Brooks Haxton)» —
«100
People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the city s walls.
(translated by Brooks Haxton)» —