True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

When in doubt, don't.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Never find fault with the absent.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.