Quotes About Wisdom

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

But at last I began to consider that that which is highly esteemed among men is had in abomination with God. And I thought again, this Shame tells me what men are; but it tells me nothing what God, or the word of God is. And I thought, moreover, that at the day of doom we shall not be doomed to death or life according to the hectoring spirits of the world, but according to the wisdom and law of the Highest.

The gentleman's name was Mr. Worldly-Wise-Man.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that one can simply withdraw, and somehow achieve peace, or wisdom, or detachment, is a mistake. It is also, in most cases, inappropriate, selfish, and even cowardly.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them…. It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

A man with experience is never at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

One of the best things I did during my single years was read books and listen to tapes on marriage. (You can't be too conspicuous, of course.) I learned so much about what makes good marriages work that it changed why I dated, how I dated, and even whom I dated.