Wisdom Quotes

"The facts all contribute only something to the setting of the problem, not to its solution."

"We find certain things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough."

"What can be shown cannot be said."

"The question is not one of clarification, but of acceptance."

"What can be thought must be thought clearly."

"The good cannot be written about."

"The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision."

"Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know."

"Accept what cannot be changed; change what can be changed."

"Darkness within darkness—the gateway to all understanding."

"The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing, refuses nothing."

"The mind of the sage is like still water reflecting the moon."

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires."

"Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough."

"Don't waste time responding to critics. Your time is better spent on those who believe in you."

"The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites."

"Troubled times call for troubled solutions."

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

"Maturity is knowing that you were an idiot in the past."

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the lion not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."

"The mind of this man is wandering, and his thoughts are not under control."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Small mind will discourse of a matter, but great and mature understanding will be silent."

"There is nothing we like to give so much as advice, and we are never averse to receiving it."

"Man's sensitivity to small matters and insensitivity to great ones indicates a strange inversion of values."

"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."

"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as from the want of sense."

"You can't understand a city until you've walked its poorest streets."