Quotes about Wisdom

The value of education is among the greatest of all human values.

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me—as you judge me—from my fluency.

To know the truth—to accept without bitterness

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

Knowledge comes through suffering.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.