Quotes about Simple Wisdom

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Lao Tzu

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform,
Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Rajneesh

The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

Sri Aurobindo

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

John Lancaster Spalding

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

Politicians make this error very frequently.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fernando Pessoa

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

James Thurber

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Black Elk

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Chris Pine

I try to live joyfully and the by the rule of treating others how you'd want to be treated - that's a good one to stick by.

Katherine Paterson

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

Celine Dion

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

Benjamin Hoff

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.
"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
"Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
"It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said.
"It is," I said.
"That's not about Taoism," he said.
"Oh, yes it is," I said.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Nancy Astor

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

William Wordsworth

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

Pablo Neruda

I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.

Charlie Munger

People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

Nicole Richie

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.

Martha Beck

Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say this - if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it. Thank you, give me my $150.

Michael Jackson

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

John Locke

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Zhuangzi

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.

Simple Wisdom Quotes