Patanjali Quotes

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

The wise are wise only because they love.

Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Experience is the extract of suffering.