Wisdom Quotes

"It is a military axiom not to advance uphill against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill."

"A clever general, therefore, avoids his strength and strikes his weakness."

"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."

"Before engagement, calculate; after engagement, reflect."

"Profound knowledge is found in stillness, not in motion."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."

"When someone seeks, it happens that his eyes become blind. I have known only men who sought, and I have known that the seeking itself was the finding."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

"How does the wise man behave? Calmly and with restraint."

"Deliberate often before action."

"True greatness is simplicity."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"It is precisely the most conscientious people who cause the most terrible mischief."

"All good things approach their goal crookedly."

"The man of knowledge must be able to love his enemies and hate his friends."

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand."

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"I learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot."

"The true improvements of mankind are done by the obedience of the present moment."

"My friends! why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"

"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad."

"The true kingdoms are within you, and all the externals are merely shadows and dust."

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."