Quotes About Wisdom

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Jeremy J. Siegel

Schooling, education and knowledge are not the same thing. One is not a natural result of the other. People grow in knowledge when they learn truths. Teaching and schooling are meaningless when students do not seek wisdom. They are likewise meaningless when that which is taught is not wisdom. In order to learn, people must thirst for knowledge. Force and compulsion cannot accomplish this.

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge,

All things considered, wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

Shamanism: Archaic techniques of ecstasy.

The way of the sacred,

Well, Hindsight, have you ever heard of the term Busy Idiot?

Choosing to narrow reality into a single belief system, based solely on human experience, seems insane to me. And

Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, "What if the world was round?

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Every schoolboy knows it.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words.

holy men only know what God reveals to them.

there is no good in frequently seeing objects which may one day lead to your captivity, or in making trial of things which you would find it hard to do without.