Wisdom Quotes

"You must always know what it is that you want"

"There are treasure sites everywhere"

"There is a universal language in the desert"

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself."

"Receive without pride, let go without attachment."

"Learn to wish that everything should happen as it does."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"The man who allows himself to be ashamed of his poverty is poor indeed."

"Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated."

"If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances."

"He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight."

"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across."

"Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory."

"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill."

"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general that will use the highest intelligence of the army for purposes of spying."

"The past cannot be escaped, only faced."

"The past is never truly past."

"The voice of conscience speaks to all."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."

"One sees clearly only with the heart."

"All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly."

"Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

"They have forgotten why the flowers matter."

"In matters of consequence, it is the heart that counts."

"I understand now why the prince was sad."