Quotes on Wisdom

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.