Quotes About Wisdom

As the Wonderful Counselor — He makes the plans. As the Mighty God —He makes the plans work.

But there is a fourth function of myth, and this is the one that I think everyone must try today to relate to—and that is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances. Myths can teach you that. MOYERS: So the old story, so long known and transmitted through the generations, isn't functioning, and we have not yet learned a new one?

One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit.' 'We're interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information.

All men are competent to know the mind of God. There is no revelation special to any people.

But there is a fourth function of myth, and this is the one that I think everyone must try today to relate to—and that is the pedagogical function, of how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances. Myths can teach you that.

But no one with a will to the service of others would permit himself such an escape. The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others." One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives only for self while the other acts to redeem society.

El yogui hindú, luchando por la liberación, se identifica con la Luz y nunca regresa. Pero nadie con la voluntad de servir a otros se permitiría semejante evasión. El objetivo último de la hazaña no debe ser ni la liberación ni la felicidad personales, sino la sabiduría y el poder para servir a los demás».

Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. It tells you what the experience is.

And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.

The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

And after some talk we agreed that the wisdom of rats had been grossly overrated, being in fact no greater than that of men.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.

True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position. It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his chances of promotion.

It would have been so much in accordance with the wisdom of life, which consists in putting out of sight all the reminders of our folly, of our weakness, of our mortality; all that makes against our efficiency — the memory of our failures, the hints of our undying fears, the bodies of our dead friends.

No method at all,' I murmured after a while. 'Exactly

True, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while I had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything--and that's what so many of them youngsters don't understand.

Youth' is a feet of memory. It is a record of experience.