Quotes About Wisdom

God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God.

These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Dark should torch of Truth be never, For it burns with love divine. Light it should all people, nations, In our hearts should be its shrine.

If we drink from the fountain of wisdom, We thirst for its waters e'ermore.

We must cherish our yesterdays, but never carry them as a burden into the future. Each generation must take nourishment from the other and give knowledge to the one that comes after.

But there's always a story behind the story. That's how the story never ends: Someone is always telling it, someone is always listening. A story is told about something someone else did once so that we won't make that same mistake now.

Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

as the Zen saying goes, 'If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.' 

really true that while we grow physically by what we get, we grow spiritually by what we give. Ever since I became a mother, I've

The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.

we can only achieve true wisdom when our soul is liberated from our bodies by death.

generación está atiborrada de información y hambrienta de sabiduría.

Lo que necesitamos —dijo Koehn— es sabiduría, porque la información... no es igual al conocimiento, y el conocimiento no es igual al entendimiento, y el entendimiento no es igual a la sabiduría...

Una gran fuente de sabiduría es la intuición, nuestro conocimiento interior.

La intuición y no el intelecto es el «ábrete sésamo» a tu interior.   ALBERT EINSTEIN

Dónde está la vida que hemos perdido viviendo? ¿Dónde está la sabiduría que hemos perdido en el conocimiento? ¿Dónde está el conocimiento que hemos perdido en la información?   T. S. ELIOT

Wisdom The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT

Intuition, not intellect, is the "open sesame" of yourself. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving. These four pillars make up the four sections of this book.

The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as "giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred." So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us and sacrificing them is a cornerstone of wisdom.

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.… Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. ELIOT