Quotes About Wisdom

Do you know that Albert Einstein expected to go to his grave keeping secret all that he knew about the atom? He pledged to himself that he would never reveal his knowledge to anyone, not because he didn't understand the great good that would come to the world through right use of the atom, but because he knew that in the wrong hands it would become destructive and produce evil results.

Do you know that every person on earth would have supreme wisdom if there weren't this mesmeric activity keeping it from them? In other words, this belief in two powers? Without that, there is only one infinite consciousness, manifesting itself as individual consciousness. Remember this: God-consciousness is your individual consciousness, and all that God is I am; all that God has is mine: "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

Your prayer will not be an asking or a seeking for any thing; it will be an asking and a seeking and a knocking for more light, greater spiritual wisdom, greater discernment.

through prayer, you can be reunited with your Source. Your prayer will not be an asking or a seeking for any thing; it will be an asking and a seeking and a knocking for more light, greater spiritual wisdom, greater discernment.

You might as well get used to the idea: All the evils of this world are nothing but pictures in the mind. When you know this, they begin to dissolve.

It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

It's wise to learn how to cook,' Kessligh fumed, 'but a meal prepared over three weeks is inedible! There is wisdom in action! So stop talking, and act!

You stop asking questions, and you just... accept some smaller version of things. Of the truth.

Never sure, Lisbeth," said Styx, backing away to consider her work. "Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

Very few things are wise, Lisbeth Debogande. Least frequently those things that are loudly pronounced to be so. The true question is whether they are necessary

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.

We could have been perfect if only we'd met when we were both too young to know better.

Was ist trauriger: ältere Menschen wegen allem, was sie gesehen, gehabt und verloren? Oder Kinder ohne jeden blassen Schimmer von allem, was sie sehen, haben und verlieren werden? Das hier war noch trauriger: ein Kind mit der bedrückenden Weisheit eines alten Menschen.

Death's wisdom is finding, at the end, that you think only of those you loved, and why you didn't love them more. Love is the only true force that endures.

And while there's so much wisdom that I don't know, I know that evil doesn't happen for a cosmic reason, a 'balance of good' bullshit. Evil happens because it can, because circumstances allow it to take place. And you build your own sanctuary against it to keep yourself sane, to keep yourself fighting it.

The wise man knew when to let go of pride to grab hold of wisdom.

You've taught me a great deal about stillness.

Hernhutter, în?elept, îl aprob? ?i d?du drept exemplu existen?a uman?: nimeni nu în?elege nimic ?i tocmai de aceea o accept? ca pe un lucru firesc.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

Aki tökéletesen okos és komoly, az képtelen élni. Minél jobban eltávolodik tÅ'lem, Balgaságtól valaki, annál kevésbé él. Ugyan miért, mi okból csókolgatjuk, ölelgetjük a kisgyermekeket, ha nem azért, mert olyan csodálatosan balgák még. S mi más teszi az ifjúságot oly vonzóvá?