wisdom Quotes

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.