Quotes about Wisdom

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

I'll lead you to the river of knowledge. You can catch your own damn fish.

He reads next to nothing. It might interfere with his knowledge of the universe.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

To not say the unkind or critical thing, particularly when provoked and/or fatigued, is a supreme kind of self-mastery.