Quotes About Wisdom

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

Life is not quite so simple as the uninformed would like to believe.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

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Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough -- you've got to know how.' So I got to thinking and I said to myself, 'This is a terrible thing that Father Lucas has put on me -- be simple like the beasts and yet think and harm nobody.

What do you listen to in the Protestant church? To the words of a man who has been chosen for his eloquence—and not too eloquent either, mark you, or he get's the bum's rush from the pulpit, for fear that in the end he will use his golden tongue for political ends. For a golden tongue is never satisfied until it has wagged itself over the destiny of a nation, and this the church is wise enough to know.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Growing old is just a matter of throwing life away back; so you finally forgive even those that you have not begun to forget. It is that indifference which gives you your courage, which to tell the truth is no courage at all.

Everything can be used in a lifetime; I've discovered that.

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough - you have to know how.