Quotes About Wisdom

Gandhi said, 'There is more to life than speed'. Unfortunately he didn't tell us what, he just left us hanging while he pranced around in his nappy. To

Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

for even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.

The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.

There is, in truth, no difference between esoteric knowledge and all the rest of man's knowledge and proficiency. This esoteric knowledge is no more of a secret for the average human being than writing is a secret for those who have never learned it.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?

The toad beneath the harrow knowsExactly where each tooth point goes;The butterfly upon the roadPreaches contentment to that toad.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Every woman knows all about everything.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.