Quotes Tagged "wisdom"

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you down ☺

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

When you love you give meaning to this world.