Wisdom Quotes

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge." "You cannot open a book without learning something." "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous." "If we don't know life, how can we know death?" "Study the past, if you would divine the future." "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort." "To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness." "Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." "This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief." "Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes." "The wound is the place where the light enters you." "Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge." "Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being." "What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle." "The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." "Patience is the key to joy." "If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home."