#wisdom

For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief. ↗

— Anonymous

#wisdom #bible

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to. ↗

— Moira Young

#virtue #wisdom #virtue

he who is greedy is always in want ↗

— Horace

#greed #satisfaction #wisdom #satisfaction

…a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss. ↗

— Al-Ghazali

#wisdom #islam

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#creativity #criticism #wisdom #wisdom-quote #wise

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ↗

— Mark Twain

#man #recovery #right #wisdom #wrong

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom ↗

— Paul Auster

#contemporary

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? ↗

— Confucius

#wisdom #zen #zen

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#philosophy #suffering #wisdom #zen #zen-buddhism

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#empathy #intuition #prophet #wisdom #intuition