Quotes About Wisdom

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Deep in their rat tendons, rats know history.

One layer off from the deepest is a cartoon.

There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance.

Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.

In the words of the Cambridge don Roger Ascham, Elizabeth I's tutor, one should "speak as the common people do…think as wise men do." Thomas

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls...hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Much better left alone,' chimed in old Jack Linden sagely, 'argyfying about politics generally ends up with a bloody row an' does no good to nobody.

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.

Getting something and having the wits to use it are two different things.

Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre... Voila toute la différence.

Mais je croy que je Suis descendu on puiz Ténébreux onquel disoit Heraclytus estre Vereté cachée.

Oh, it's too bad!—really, men are tiresome when they think they know everything!

It is a bad sign," said Lys. "You know the Morbihan proverb: 'When the cormorant turns from the sea, Death laughs in the forest, and wise woodmen build boats.'" "I wish," said I sincerely, "that there were fewer proverbs in Brittany.

The quasi-mythical competitive "free market" provides an overpowering metaphor for a free and efficient economy, but it has little to do with real-world capitalism. As Charles E. Lindblom put it, conventional wisdom continually "stumbles" and is incapable of grasping capitalism as a system, "because the market's dazzling benefits half blind it to the defects.

We are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life often come to us through some form of extreme hardship.

Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.

We have regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys peace.

As a spark proceeds from fire, "individuality" emanates from the Absolute Self.

He lived on that high level, on the same highlands of the spirit that were disclosed in the Upanishads and Sufi classics. To go where Eckhart went is to come close to Lao Tzu and Buddha, and certainly to Jesus Christ.

Do not find any duality. The wise do not see "this" and "that," they do not perceive the "relative". Completely give up distinctions—the "world" of the relative is transcended by the wise. Free from the pairs of opposites (such as better-worse), the sage sees the same everywhere—his perception is nondual. Duality is the root of misery.