Quotes About Wisdom

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.

What is the right use of books? For inspiration. Books exist for your benefit, not you for theirs. Your most precious possession is your own soul. Better to never see a book than to have it pull you out of your orbit, so that your life now revolves around that book instead of around your own soul.

education is more precious than that which we call so.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of this faith is freedom. Its goal is simply to make us good and wise. Its institutions should be as flexible as the needs of humanity in different times and places.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind."—A. Einstein

The world is won by those who let it go.

Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know."—Tao Te Ching

Ephrem the Syrian says, 'Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.' "—Way of a Pilgrim

In a non-traditional culture such as ours, dominated by technology, we value information far more than we do wisdom. But there is a difference between the two. Information involves the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of facts; a storing-up of physical data. But wisdom involves another equally crucial function: the emptying and quieting of the mind, the application of the heart, and the alchemy of reason and feeling.

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.