wisdom Quotes

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.

If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.