Wisdom quotes

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Three things shine openly, not in secret: the moon, the sun, and the Dhamma and Discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Where there is love there is life.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.