From Laozi: “Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
Tag Archives: wisdom
Quote of the day 11/08/25
From Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
Quote of the day 11/06/25
From John Milton: “Yet he who reigns within himself, and rulesPassions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
Quote of the day 10/18/25
From Aristotle: “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Quote of the day 10/14/25
From Albert Einstein: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
Quote of the day 10/07/25
From Wang Yang-Ming: “The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.”
Quote of the day 09/24/25
From Chrysippus: “I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.”
Quote of the day 07/10/25
From Basho: “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
Quote of the day 07/09/25
From Jitsu-go-kiyo: “If thou be born in the poor man’s hovel, yet have wisdom, then wilt thou be like the lotus-flower growing out of the mire.”
Quote of the day 07/06/25
From the Salla Sutta: “This world is afflicted with death and decay; therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world.”