Top 22 Eastern Wisdom Quotes
#1. This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.
Isaac Asimov
#2. Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.
Stanislav Grof
#3. An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.
L. Frank Baum
#4. This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle of a sea of carnivorous jam. As I blacked out, all I could think of was a fortune teller I'd spoken to a few years ago, and how full of shit she'd turned out to be.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#5. When you were born, you were given a one-way ticket. You can never come back and visit your past.
Debasish Mridha
#6. I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
Margaret Stohl
#7. Beauty is a primeval phenomenon. It never makes an appearance itself, but is a visible reflection in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind. It is as various as nature herself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. Be concerned with how you live than with how long
Gold
#9. God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.
Eric Hoffer
#10. I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Ira Glass
#12. As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
Idries Shah
#13. The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#14. No one is now what they were before the war. There's just no getting any of it back.
Catherynne M Valente
#15. Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
Socrates
#16. You left me for a dream you had to follow, but I thought goodbye wouldn't last that long.
Travis Tritt
#17. Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.
Alice Temperley
#18. [I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ...
William Jones
#19. Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.
Paul Vitz
#20. If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them.
George R R Martin
#21. Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.
Ella Leya
#22. For the New Age community, 'ancient' knowledge is always considered unimpeachable and unimprovable, just as a diverse range of beliefs from Eastern mysticism to UFOs, energy dowsing to cryptozoology, are - though mutually contradictory - unquestionably accepted in the name of open-mindedness.
Mark Crutchfield
