Wisdom quotes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

True strength is delicate.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.