Quotes About Wisdom

Only a fool believes that life has but one meaning.

Much of the world is illusion, yet the forms of that illusion follow a pattern which is a part of divine reality.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown.

What should I do?' Coyote yelled. 'Cultivate philosophy and run like hell,' said Bear...

It is the difference between the unknown and the unknowable, between science and fantasy - it is a matter of essence. The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

Stubama i dolje. Ni zvuka odozdo. Zna?i kasno je. Dobro. Još jedan dan, a još smo živi. Možda ?ak i malo mudriji. Dovoljno mudri da bismo shvatili da mnoge stvari još ne znamo. Doduše, imamo nadu.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes. Sam held out his hand. Give me some tobacco and a paper. He accepted the package, rolled himself a cigarette. Light? ...Thanks.

To speak is to name names, but to speak is not important. A thing happens once that has never happened before. Seeing it, a man looks upon reality. He cannot tell others what he has seen. Others wish to know, however, so they question him saying, 'What is it like, this thing you have seen?' So he tries to tell them.

What's truth, anyway? Truth is what you make it.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

This is because one can never be sure whether wisdom produces or merely locates, and the Prince is wise.

You imported a master strategist, you'd better listen to what he has to say.

My foolproof plan might not be proof against this-meaning I was the fool.

I'll bare the basics, bridle the beast Unreason, and wrest from murky mystery the pearl of sweetest sense.

Think not less of me in my omniscience, said Brahma, stifling a yawn with his scepter, if I admit to having, for the moment, forgotten these figures.

Had I known at the time how well I wrought, said Yama, I might have numbered its days intentionally. Occasionally, do I regret my genius.

Depression is a red herring, said Nariman. I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...

And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me.

You know, Maneck, the human face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no room for crying.' 'What a nice saying,' he answered

Flirting with madness is one thing. But when madness starts flirting back, its time to call the whole thing off.

Ishvar left the trunk he was packing on the verandah, and came in. He sat on the bed, putting his around him. You know, Maneck, the human face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no room for crying.

Klausykis sen? žmoni? patarim?. Kai užaugame, mums atrodo, kad žinome visk?. Manome, kad seniai kuoktel?j?, Metams b?gant, sukaupiame per daug išdidumo. Jis mus ir pražudo.

It is not true that the more you love, the better you understand; all that the action of love obtains from me is merely this wisdom: that the other is not to be known; his opacity is not the screen around a secret, but. instead, a kind of evidence in which the game of reality and appearance' is done away with. I am then seized with that exaltation of loving someone unknown, someone who will re- main so forever: a mystic impulse: I know what I do not know.