Quotes About Wisdom

Imam toliko iskustva da pouzdano znam: u stvaranju I ljubavi tu?a iskustva ne zna?e skoro ništa.

Zaboravilo se: sve su velike misli ro?ene u tišini, najbolje su knjige napisane u ?utanju.

I smile when I look back at the troubles that have strengthened me. What seems to be insurmountable struggles then are now beautiful ornaments illuminating my soul.

I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.

Truth. .. it might make you sad. But somewhere deep inside of you, you know that it is truth. If you can but open yourself up, you know when things are true and when that they are not. For this is available to you.

To stop learning is to die

this Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

But many times people take the primary switch from the heart and put it to the head, and that throws the whole system off.

with the decision to remain in this world until this lesson was learned. After all, if you exit too soon, for whatever reason, you must return to complete the lesson. You never get out of it that easily.

There cannot be the understanding of that which is given until there is experienced that which is taken.

When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life.

Then we decided that our failure to understand something does not necessarily mean it is without merit.

A:He told me that I would be soon. Everybody is, many times. He told me to try to learn anything I can. He said to expect it to be different because it will be different each time. And this way, we learn everything about life. We have to be everything. We have to know everything.

Patanjali, Buddha, Moses and Jesus did not go to workshops or seminars or even churches. They went directly to nature: sat under a Bodhi tree or on top of a mountain or in a cave. … It is time to return to the source of this inspiration – the earth itself.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.