Quotes about Wisdom

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.