Quotes About Wisdom

Company. Copyright 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Peter Marren has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this

wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

I have since learned never to trust men with combovers. They have absolutely no judgement.

The young are not curious about their elders, they just accept them for what they are. But I wish now I could go back and ask her about her life, fill in all those gaps. But of course, you can't go back.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

minds. As a wise woman wrote "Language as an articulation of reality is more primordial than strategy, structure, or culture."[31]

Between perfect vision and total blindness lies all the truth we know.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,"[ 49] he was inviting us to be free.

I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.

I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

Knowing" can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.

Only when we realize that beliefs are not the truth will the door of possibility open so that we can experience what "is" true.

Enlightenment: Some Nothing from Which to Come

separating the truth from what's believed. This action allows you to let go of your own knowledge and open up to freshly experience this moment without presumption.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Peter Robinson

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom." - Benjamin Franklin.

As the psychologist Victor Frankl once pointed out, true knowledge is always knowledge plus – that is, knowledge that understands that it is always penetrated by unknowing. The result is that God is not defined as the greatest conceivable being or as that which is greater than conception, but rather, as Anselm argued, God is the one who is conceived as inconceivable.

When Pascal wrote of the heart as having reasons that reason does not know, he was referring to a type of knowledge that is foreign to the academic disciplines and different from the type of knowledge we seek in daily life. He was referring to the knowledge of a transformation that could never be placed into words or experience and thus could never be objectified, dissected, and distanced from us.