Quotes on Wisdom

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.