Wisdom

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"We put thirty spokes to make a wheel;
but it is on the hole in the centre that the use of the cart hinges.
We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
but it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
We make doors and windows for a room;
but it is the empty spaces that make the room livable.
Thus, while existence has advantages, it is the emptiness that makes it useful." - Lao Tzu

"To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance,
and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others,
by expressing in the world of forms, truth, love, purity and beauty
- this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth.
All other happenings, incidents and attainments can,
in themselves, have no lasting importance." - Meher Baba

"Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two." - Buddha

"Speech is the sign of living, but silence is life itself."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

"The higher you want to go, the deeper your roots have to be."

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.” - Confucius, The Confucian Analects