Quotes About Wisdom

Even if one has progressed far in divine things, one is never nearer the truth than when one understands that those things still remain to be discovered. He who believes he has attained the goal, far from finding what he seeks, falls by the wayside.

The sorrow bird: We've gone too far. I'm afraid we can't go back. Hoopoe: Back?... There's a circle, bird. Why, just think of the phoenix. He lives alone for more than a thousand years acquiring great wisdom and when it's his time to go, he gathers leaves around himself, spreads his wings, and starts a fire - a new phoenix is born from his ashes. We're going forward, bird!

God is just, merciful, good, wise, loving.

Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

The wise are known for their few words.

Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality.

Maturity in life is when someone is living joyfully within their God-given limits.

As the wise, old Abbot Moses said when a brother came to him for a good word, "Go, sit in your cell [a monk's room], and your cell will teach you everything.

I think one thing that's really important is to not be afraid of your ignorance. If you don't understand how something works, ask someone who does. A lot of people are skittish about that. And that doesn't help anybody. Not knowing something doesn't mean you're dumb – it just means you don't know it yet.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

A philosopher is one who, as an athlete of totality, is laden with the weight of the world. The essence of philosophy as a form of living is philponia — friendship with the entirety of weighty and worth things. The love of wisdom and the love of the weight of the one whole are unified.

The disciple of philosophy must present itself, first as a way of thinking and then as a way of life.

It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it.

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

Sei bitte nicht naiv. Dieses Land ist so alt oder so jung wie alle anderen." "Aber hier habe ich das Gefühl, dass noch alles möglich ist.

Und, dass es Glück war wird man erst aus der Distanz sehen.

the inevitable tension between knowledge and innocence

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe? A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

You can tell a man is clever by his answers – you can tell a man is wise by his questions.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

It is a foolish judge who, before the evidence is presented, makes a judgement.