Chanakya Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Trying, Poison

• Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

  Chanakya

  Education, Wisdom, Heart

• The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

  Chanakya

  Beauty, Wisdom, World

• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Snakes, Should

• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

  Chanakya

  Friendship, Happiness, Wisdom

• The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

  Chanakya

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Men

• Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Noble Man

• Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Secret

• What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Mirrors

• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Emotion

• Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Heart, Two

• She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Husband, Wife

• He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

  Chanakya

  Running, Wisdom, Men

• He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Kings, Community

• As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Wisdom, Men

• Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Mother, Journey

• The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Wisdom, Blow

• A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, People

• Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Wisdom, Secret

• As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Long, Healthy

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (Ch. 4), 2002.

• He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Wealth

• The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Godly, Animal

• Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Hands, Contentment

• Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Religious, Journey

• The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Sweet, Men

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