Wisdom Quotes

"Respect the old, protect the young, and do not wrong the middle-aged."

"Wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to remain silent."

"The wise man speaks little but listens much to the rhythms of nature."

"What one generation considers absurd, the next calls wisdom."

"The wise person changes his mind when presented with better arguments."

"Choose silence before speaking, as the owl does in the night."

"The body is the prison of the soul, but virtue is its key."

"Do not speak unless you can improve upon the silence."

"Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it."

"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself."

"The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao."

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go."

"Knowing others is information; knowing your real self is true knowledge."

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, and compassion."

"Do you dare to step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?"

"Wisdom and virtue are not far apart; to know them is to become them."

"Knowing how to be silent is knowing when to listen."

"Be modest in your desires, and you will live a happy life."

"Prudence is a more valuable thing than philosophy."

"Live unknown to avoid unnecessary trouble."

"The wise man does not give the right answer, he poses the right question."

"A wise man is content with simple things."

"The highest good is friendship and the pursuit of wisdom."

"Wisdom is knowing what not to want as much as what to want."

"The tortoise and the hare teach us that our assumptions about reality may be fundamentally flawed."

"We assume the world moves, yet perhaps it is our understanding that stands still."

"Our senses deceive us into believing in motion, change, and multiplicity."

"The one is all; the many are nothing but conceptual divisions of an indivisible unity."

"To say something moves from here to there is to already assume what you are trying to prove."

"We divide the world into parts, yet perhaps the world resists such division fundamentally."