Quotes About Wisdom

Un mundo de cualidades inversas, porque este universo es estable y real. Sócrates comprendió que este mundo de la verdad está al alcance del hombre a través del pensamiento. Él mostró el camino. Platón recordó la lección y la desarrolló: la vía para llegar a la verdad pasa por los conceptos.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever." —GERMAINE GREER

Adults who were victims of emotional abuse must learn to trust their feelings. Feelings provide us with an immense amount of wisdom and information. Uncomfortable feelings that may have been dangerous to express in our original families are no longer dangerous. We have a right to be angry when someone offends us. Our fear protects us and even our pain helps us grow. For example, fear helps us know when we are in danger.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

We have a tradition in Tibet. Sacred craziness. Men and women who act in a strange way. People think they are fools, but their wisdom, in fact, is more than those we call normal.

In fact, it is the account of an interior voyage, the kind of excursion that's hard to talk about without sounding foolish or annoyingly serene, or like someone who thinks the Great Spirit has singled him out to be the mouthpiece of ultimate truth. If you knew me you'd know that I am none of the above.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

Everything you need to know can be found in a book.

Duh du jour.

Now you can say you've been bitten in the ass by an ass." "That's

the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

We see as we are," said the Buddha

Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking. —ANTONIO MACHADO, CANTARES

It is not speech which we should want to know: we should want to know the speaker. It is not things seen which we should want to know: we should know the seer. It is not sounds which we should want to know: we should know the hearer. It is not the mind which we should want to know: WE SHOULD KNOW THE THINKER. —FROM THE KAUSHITAKI UPANISHAD

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing "about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

You are the only man I ever respected,' she said. 'But you haven't aged well. You have stayed young. Men who stay young don't age well.

Tik priart?jus ketvirt? dešimt?, po ilg? klajoni? tarp šedevr? man atsiv?r? tiesa ir supratau, kad paskutinio kamuoliuko išvis n?ra.

J'ai jamais aimé faire de la peine aux gens, je suis philosophe.

Madame Rosa dit que la vie peut être très belle mais qu'on ne l'a pas encore vraiment trouvée et qu'en attendant il faut bien vivre.