Wisdom Quotes

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Wisdom is a weapon to ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which enemies cannot destroy.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.