Quotes on “wisdom”

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

May you live every day of your life.

A man without words is a man without thought.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.