Quotes About Wisdom

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.

To program the calories you must consume and the number of hours you must sleep is a foolish way to handle life.

The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.

If you handle your entire life with logic alone, you will end up a mess.

An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.

The path is not difficult. It is very simple. If you are simple, it's very simple. If you are all wound up, the path is very, very winding. That's all it is.

Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.

The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow.

Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know.

Right now, you don't have the necessary faculties to know anything which is beyond the physical. If you recognize this, if you understand this, if you accept this absolutely, only then the other dimension opens up.

I do not know" is the doorway—the only doorway—to seeking and knowing.

It is unfortunate that we have moved from intuition to information.

What is the biggest wonder of life?' Without hesitation, Yudhishthira famously answers, 'Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.

One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post – only for support, not for illumination.

So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception. Unfortunately if I use the word 'spirituality,' people think they will have to chant or go sit in the temple, church or mosque, or that they have to give up their food and clothing. Spirituality is not about that. It's about enhancing your perception. The

Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps.

Different people need different kinds of impetus. If they are sensible, they learn by just looking. If they are not sensible, they learn by a thrashing. Life will thrash them.

Any fool will seek liberation when he is suffering. It takes enormous intelligence to seek liberation when everything is going well.

Until this time, I had completely refused to accept anything in my life that did not fit into a rational and logical framework. Slowly, I began to realize that it is life that is the ultimate intelligence. Human intellect is mere smartness that ensures survival. But true intelligence is just life and life—and that which is the source of life. Nothing else.

It has always seemed to me odd that the world does not realize the immensity of a state of "I do not know.

responsibility for our own. When you live by the memory of a single book, you are religious. When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But when you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic.

The yogic culture is not god-oriented – and this is what makes it an invaluable contribution to a world ravaged by wildly conflicting definitions of the divine. Adiyogi