Quotes on Wisdom

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers.

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.