Quotes on Wise

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person _x000D_ accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

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.

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.