Gautama Buddha Quotes, Wise Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Buddhist Quotes

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Life Quotes , Wise Quotes

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Wise Quotes , Mean Quotes

The wisest of the wise may err.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Wise Quotes

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , School Quotes

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , God Quotes , Wise Quotes

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wise Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Wise Quotes , Self Quotes

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Welfare Quotes

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Confidence Quotes , Wise Quotes

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Fate Quotes

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wise Quotes , Up Early Quotes

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Wise Quotes , Perfection Quotes

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Wise Quotes

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wise Quotes , Art Quotes

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Wise Quotes

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Wise Quotes , Philosophical Quotes