Quotes on Wisdom

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

What you would seem to be, be really.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.