wisdom Status

"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."

"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."

"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe."

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

"Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?"

"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."

"Never find fault with the absent."

"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."

"By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure."

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."