Quotes on Words Of Wisdom

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

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.