Quotes About Wisdom

In fact, we can directly experience that consciousness is never improved or harmed by what it knows. Making this discovery, again and again, is the basis of spiritual life.

wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available.

Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did two thousand years ago.

You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.

We cannot live by reason alone.

What we need to become happier and to make the world a better place is not more pious illusions but a clearer understanding of the way things are.

Have you ever traveled, beyond all mere metaphors, to the Mountain of Shame and stayed for a thousand years? I do not recommend it.

Dzogchen masters.

The practice of recognizing nondual awareness is called trekchod, which means "cutting through" in Tibetan, as in cutting a string cleanly so that both ends fall away. Once one has cut it, there is no doubt that it has been cut. I recommend that you demand the same clarity of your meditation practice.

Wherever there are right and wrong answers to important questions, there will be better or worse ways to get those answers and better or worse ways to put them to use.

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

George Carlin, Brain Droppings

He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.

I asked my instructor how I could cut ten strokes off my score. He told me to quit on hole 17!

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.