Posts tagged wisdom

Patience is invulnerable armor, and wisdom a sharp weapon.
Gautama Buddha
(The Gospel of Buddha, P. Carus, 1894)
Yup.

Yup.

Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

William Saroyan

I’m no longer quite sure what the question is. But I do know that the answer is ‘yes.’

Leonard Bernstein

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Laozi

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.

Carl Sagan