One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

Kale pe a, repeated my friend. It is an ancient Tibetan farewell when a caravan sets out to climb the high peaks. It means - go slowly if you wish to return.

You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make.

Handle with care - everything - even the predators.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

The man who believes he can deceive the system and deceive us is definitely mentally ill.

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end. 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

I once heard a man speak, who had understanding, and the promise of vision. He was called the Master of Culter.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

Cricket Bell. I smiled into my phone. How did you get so wise?

{T}he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000....

But I don't know what the right thing to do is; I sometimes think I know too much, I've studied too much, learned too much, remembered too much. It all seems to average out, somehow; like dust that...

Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves

...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real...

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon...

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

The key to wisdom is doubt!

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

When they expect you to give up, that's when you should put your foot down and double speed.