Quotes About Wisdom

the guru is not the destination but the road map.

Anger is fundamentally self-defeating. If you look at your life closely, you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry. Above all, you were working against yourself. If you work against yourself, if you sabotage your own well-being, you are obviously choosing unintelligence as a way of life. I

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.

The word sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru.

Once it happened…Four men were walking in the forest. The first was a gnana yogi, the second was a bhakti yogi, the third was a karma yogi, and the fourth was a kriya yogi.

If you keep the false conclusions at bay, truth will dawn.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Truth does not change, only our awareness of it.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children

It is like a two-edged sword. It cuts into you. It causes you great pain, but if you can take the truth, it will cure you and save you from what otherwise be certain death.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

We cannot teach what we do not know and we cannot lead where we will not go.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Kitaps?z bir ev üzücü olmal?. Daha üzücüsü ise; okuyan? olmayan kitaplarla dolu bir evdir.

Incierto es, en verdad, lo porvenir. ¿Quién sabe lo que va a pasar? Pero incierto es también lo pretérito, ¿quién sabe lo que ha pasado? ANTONIO MACHADO Juan de Mairena

Marc Aronson

The Torah of Israel is not hidden in the holy Ark in the synagogue, but goes with us in all our steps in all the places we go, enlightening us with its light and sanctifying us with its sanctity....