Quotes About Wisdom

He was a mine of irrelevant information and unasked-for good advice. Once started, he went on and on—boomingly.

The Diamond Sutra

Spiritual progress is through the growing knowledge of the self as nothing and of the Godhead as all-embracing Reality. (Such knowledge, of course, is worthless if it is merely theoretical; to be effective, it must be realized as an immediate, intuitive experience and appropriately acted upon.)

Aldous Huxley

To think of God as mere Power, and not also, at the same time as Power, Love and Wisdom, comes quite naturally to the ordinary, unregenerate human mind. Only the totally selfless are in a position to know experimentally that, in spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already is well.

Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo

Make for virtue and happiness, generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

being of the knower, there is a corresponding

Aldous Huxley

Lo que importaba era más la felicidad que la verdad y la belleza.

Porque son los detalles, como todo el mundo lo sabe, los que conducen a la virtud y a la felicidad...

RzÄ…dzenie to sprawa stoÅ'ka, nie koÅ'ka. RzÄ…dzi siÄ™ przy pomocy mózgu i poÅ›ladków, nie pi??ci. - Aldous Huxley Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat

I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride; it strikes, being solar, at the very heart of the Aspirant; more, it is an inflation and exacerbation of the Ego, so that its victim runs the peril of straying into a Black Lodge, and finding himself at home there.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

El más grave de todos los ´pecados´ es el autoengaño

Shallow thinkers always seem to be obsessed by the stupidity that if anything is a shadow, dream, illusion, it ceases to exist.

Learn this, as we pass through the portico: Fear nothing; there is nothing you can know! And by these terraces and steps that gleam Wintry, although the summer night is hot, This—what we seek is never what we find! Life is a dream, like love; and from the dream If we may wake, we never find it what We would; for the wisdom of a mightier mind Leads us in its own ways To a perfected praise.

Look at the testimony of literature. In the days of chivalry our sympathies go with the Knight-errant, who redresses wrongs; with the King, whose courage and wisdom deliver his people from their enemies. But when Kingship became tyranny, and feudalism oppression, we took our heroes from the rebels. Robin Hood, Hereward the Wake, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Rob Roy; it was always the Under Dog that appealed to the artist.

The seal of Reason, made impregnable: _ The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid: The seal of Brotherhood, man's miracle: _ The seal of Peace, and Wisdom heaven-descended: The seal of Bitterness, cast down to Hell: _ The seal of Love, secure, not-to-be-rended: The seventh seal, Equality: that, broken, God sets His thunder and earthquake for a token.

It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is.