Quotes About Wisdom

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.

If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

Eva wrote, "that our focus should be on mutual communication of some form and on some level with our alien friends, learning, accepting, and integrating alien wisdom within our world and culture. Time, money, and energy spent solely on providing proof of alien existence is fruitless.

My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

Not many people, however, are content to follow Albert Einstein's summary advice: 'This is what I have to say about Bach's life's work: listen, play, love, revere – and keep your trap shut.

It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.

And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. AFRICAN PROVERB

Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. [Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.