Quotes About Wisdom

To emerge from this narrow shell, to regain union with the universal consciousness, to pass from the darkness of the ego-centered illusion into the light of the non-ego, this was the real aim of the Religion Game as defined by the great teachers, Jesus, Gautama, Krishna, Mahavira, Lao-tze and the Platonic Socrates. Among

Mothers, Grandmothers, and Mother Nature are the best doctors around.

There must be more to stones than science can account for. Every worker with stones intuitively knows this is so.

Eine jede Hoffnung ist ohne Sinn. Kein Mensch verfalle auf die Idee, auf die Erfüllung seiner Träume zu sinnen. Vielmehr soll er den Irrsinn des Hoffens begreifen. Hat er ihn begriffen, darf er hoffen. Wenn er dann noch träumen kann, hat sein Leben Sinn.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things i can't change,the courage to change the things i can and the wisdom to make difference between them.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion. Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.

We can say with some accuracy that most people put on a show of their own knowledgeability and try to conceal their ignorance of millions of facts.

Remember kids: brush your greens, eat your teeth, stay in milk, drink your school, don't do sleep, and get your eight hours of drugs!

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

And then they knew the perilous rock,And blessed the Abbot of Aberbrothok.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried,"The few locks which are left you are gray;You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:Now tell me the reason, I pray."

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

While Washington's statement will be seen by most today as an assumption of "white supremacism" and "xenophobia," in fact, it contains an important kernel of wisdom: without some point of unity, a common polity will fracture and dissolve. Today, we see this happening before our very eyes.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.