Quotes on Wise Man Once Said

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Be suspicious of what you want.

In the sea there are countless treasures, _x000D_ _x000D_ But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Come out of the circle of time_x000D_ _x000D_ And into the circle of love.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Through discipline comes freedom.